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Re: Zotero 6

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Post by aDfbrtVt »

oofbey wrote: post #7

Anybody using this know if it works well for iPad + pencil for scribbling notes on published research papers?

The Apple Pencil support is still pretty rough, but it's been getting better every update version. I've been using it for the last couple of months.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by mbreese »

oofbey wrote: post #7

Anybody using this know if it works well for iPad + pencil for scribbling notes on published research papers?

I haven’t used their new iOS app, but it’s a welcome addition. In the past you had to sync your Zotero library with another app for PDF annotation that was synced (papership). It was never something I’d call robust or seamless and the papership app has felt like abandonware.

I’m looking forward to trying the new app today.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by mijoharas »

Is anyone else getting horrible stuttering when scrolling that page? (I happen to be on mobile with a bad connection right now, but it's so bad it makes the page almost unreadable)

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by xattt »

oofbey wrote: post #7

Anybody using this know if it works well for iPad + pencil for scribbling notes on published research papers?

The iOS app doesn’t come up as the first result in the App Store. Not sure if it’s because Zotero isn’t popular enough yet.

Regardless, here is the direct link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zotero/id1513554812

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by TheCabin »

I used Zotero quite a bit in the past, the thing that ultimately drove me away is that when synchronizing you couldn't easily access the PDFs just via the filesystem. I use a nextcloud and also wanted to access PDFs from devices without Zotero installed and this turned out to be a pain at the time. Is this possible with more recent Zotero versions? Is the sync still cumbersome with a zotero account + self-hosted webdav?

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by criddell »

account-5 wrote: post #6

I love zotero. Amazing software, indispensable. Want an easy way to integrate with pandoc and Zim-Wiki, I'm sure there's a way but I've not found it yet. Either way this software is massively underrated. EDIT What's with the official iOS app and no Android?

> no Android?

iOS is probably their most important platform. If there are enough users, I'd guess Android and Mobian apps will be forthcoming.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by WHA8m »

I'm with Zotero for about 2 weeks and I'm very much in love with it. I use it mainly to store and categorize downloaded Websites (SingelFile) and PDFs.

While a PDF viewer (and every functionality that comes with it) is greatly appreciated, I'd wish for same for html and other formats. That'd be overkill :)

One thing that I really miss and actual slows my process, is a proper tag-system. Something like Anki has: being able to make tag hierarchies by higher-tag::lower-tag. I'm a heavy tag-user and the overall experience with tags in Zotero is very average. But maybe I'm using this application for stuff that's not intended for.

Overall great project and surely something I'll donate a few bucks to the next time I'm on that spree. You guys doing gods work. Love it!

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