Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
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Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#2We tried to migrate a reference library with more than 17k entries, but it never worked out beyond 2k.
Sorry to say: might be fine for small personal projects, for anything serious I don't see how.
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#3I use Zotero as a bookmarking too. It saves the files and articles offline.
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#4We tried to migrate a reference library with more than 17k entries, but it never worked out beyond 2k. Sorry to say: might be fine for small personal projects, for anything serious I don't see how.
What problems did you encounter with this large library?
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#5I use Zotero as a bookmarking too. It saves the files and articles offline.
Same!
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#6We tried to migrate a reference library with more than 17k entries, but it never worked out beyond 2k. Sorry to say: might be fine for small personal projects, for anything serious I don't see how.
What were you trying to migrate from? And what do you use now?
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#7I found Zotero very confusing to use. But maybe I am not the target demographic. I have always just used vim txt files for notes, using cli tools like grep to find what I need.
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#8I learned it in college and a month ago I was googling to remember this software and I found nothing. So thank you for posting this !!
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#9I found Zotero very confusing to use. But maybe I am not the target demographic. I have always just used vim txt files for notes, using cli tools like grep to find what I need.
It is very good for also downloading and keeping track of PDFs. It is primarily targeted at academics. And for many of us, it’s a great tool for keeping track of what papers we are currently reading, or want to keep for later. It can be hard to manage citations, PDFs, etc… in a text document. I know some people do, but I like being able to use a bookmarklet/extension to add a new paper to my lists.
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#10We tried to migrate a reference library with more than 17k entries, but it never worked out beyond 2k. Sorry to say: might be fine for small personal projects, for anything serious I don't see how.
Something's not right there. People use Zotero with libraries with tens of thousands of items all the time. (Some people have hundreds of thousands of items, though that gets dicier.) Not sure exactly what you were seeing, but we'd be happy to debug in the Zotero Forums if you wanted to try again. It's possible to configure a third-party plugin such that it affects performance, for example.
(Disclosure: Zotero dev)