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I use Zotero as a bookmarking too. It saves the files and articles offline.
I outlined what I'm looking for here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29776997
Do you think this might be possible with Zotero after all?
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>Zotero can do anything EndNote can do, is Open Source, and with that won't drive your PI up the wall with yet another expense. My university offers EndNote (plus Web of Science and the Clarivate stack) for free for students and many of them don't use it - they'd rather manually manage the bibliography in their Word documents. The university even ran tutorials to show them how to set it up, add citations, and export…
Having used Zotero, Mendeley and Endnote I ended up on Endnote. I like their metadata scraping, their Word plugin and that many journals offer a pre-configured reference template. But yes as a DBMS it lacks alot in the filter/grouping features and date fields don't convert format intelligently.
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> Mendeley went full on Evil Could you explain what happened with mendeley? I've been using it for a while, and didn't notice anything different really.
Mendeley joined the Elsevier "Family." Elsevier is one of the big three making massive amounts of money by selling content they receive for free, paid for by the tax payer or non-profits. I strongly believe, that this has greatly contributed to the "Joe Roganization" of the pandemic, hiding true science and research, often created under the auspices of governmental research trusts, behind a paywall. Anyone not in aca…
(That said, any devs here? Why haven’t you shipped this epic app?)
Deep appreciation for excellent, open-source software that is really polished.
Is anyone using Zotero as a bookmark manager for articles to read later? I’d love to try it for this purpose!
Using the Zotero extension, it is basically one click setup with Zotero installed. Zotero automatically downloads a copy of the webpage, and pulls any associated metadata it can find. For example, I saved this for later use: https://archive.org/details/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7. Zotero pulled the names of authors, publishers and everything else it could find.
Zotero is, if you're not in the market for a closed source silo like EndNote, the only game left in town. Mendeley went full on Evil, and Papers for Mac is Mac only, closed source, and missing dozens of functionalities that are absolutely a must have in academic writing and research. An absolute must have is BetterBibTex ( https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/ ), which adds better Citekey management and, my perso…
Zotero is, if you're not in the market for a closed source silo like EndNote, the only game left in town. Mendeley went full on Evil, and Papers for Mac is Mac only, closed source, and missing dozens of functionalities that are absolutely a must have in academic writing and research. An absolute must have is BetterBibTex ( https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/ ), which adds better Citekey management and, my perso…
I love and I use exclusively Linux but sometimes I despair: > How do I install Zotero? Mac Open the .dmg you downloaded and drag Zotero to the Applications folder. You can then run Zotero from Spotlight, Launchpad, or the Applications folder and add it to your Dock like any other program. After installing Zotero, you can eject and delete the .dmg file. Windows Run the setup program you downloaded. Linux Download the…
Seconded, some effort by the core team towards packaging Zotero in a deb would be very welcome.
Alternatively, what about AppImage? At least that will run "everywhere".
Edit: it looks like they support WebDAV, which I now have set up but didn't in the past. Maybe I can try it again using that protocol.