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How good is Zotero as a bookmark manager similar to Pinboard.in or Raindrop.io? Both have a paid feature that stores a permanent copy of a site, but these are stored only on their servers, and Pinboard's archive download feature never worked for me.
How good is Zotero as a bookmark manager similar to Pinboard.in or Raindrop.io? Both have a paid feature that stores a permanent copy of a site, but these are stored only on their servers, and Pinboard's archive download feature never worked for me.
Zotero's snapshots work well enough on most pages you'd care to throw at it in an academic context. Your mileage may vary if you're using it as a general bookmarks manager, owing to the amount of client-side scripting-driven chicanery on the Web today. Notable example that I've found that Zotero didn't handle well at one point: Medium (although the data was there―the saved copy just wouldn't render correctly in-browser when opened; this doesn't appear to be an issue anymore for new snapshots, at least for now).
For most stuff that I want to have a durable URL for but that I feel doesn't merit being in my Zotero library, I just use ordinary browser bookmarks and make sure that the Wayback Machine and/or archive.is has a copy.
HN is also fond of Wallabag and ArchiveBox:
- https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Would also be great for systematic reviews.
It looks tremendously useful, though. If it had been around when I was in school, I suspect I'd have found it indispensable.
Is it still based on the XUL platform?
Any OCR support? I literally pay 20$ a month to fill out PDFs
Checkout the ocrmypdf project: https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
I'm probably stuck using Adobe for now, just because for anything really important you can't rely on anything aside from the official Adobe PDF editor to not screw things up. Up. But I absolutely love your project, I can imagine this would work great for academics.
You can automate much of your research between machine learning and directly reading PDFs. Many older publications don't have searchable text at all, and searchable text is a lifesaver when you're doing research.
I cannot tell from the changelog for this or the previous version whether Zotero has expanded its metadata and formatting capabilities to better support legal citations, so I guess I will stick to the Jurism[0] fork for now. If anybody knows of a better way to make this work in Zotero directly, I'm all ears. [0]: https://juris-m.github.io/
I love the fact that open source software allows this but sometimes I really wish they'd just incorporate the two.
This looks really nice. Zotero has never stuck with me for some reason but I last used it a few years ago. I'll try again. One problem with this type of service is that there's usually a huge jump from unpaid to paid, but the jump to the lowest paid tier of Zotero lets you pay $20/year for 2 GB of storage. I can handle that. I have more difficulty with the $15/month and $90/year and such paid tiers. Even at $20/year,…
So if you have a group of people working together in a group library, one shared library subscription covers all of them. It doesn't take many people to make this worthwhile.
And as you say, it's a good way to support a great project. I do it even when I'm not really using the software.
I've been using this in beta for quite a while. The PDF reader is really very good, and I love the fact that my highlights and notes are not added to the actual PDF file. (I don't want to mess up the original PDF file, because I like to keep those files in pristine form so that e.g. I can share them with students.) Some people here are asking about paying for storage for the PDFs. My solution to this is to store my P…
The dropbox/onedrive/etc. approach works, but honestly I find it easier to share files from a group library (they don't need a paid account) and keeps structure etc. there also....