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Re: Zotero 6

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Post by sva_ »

ulnarkressty wrote: post #59

Anybody have any tips on self-hosted Zotero? Org doesn't like the metadata syncing. Other option would be Mendeley Enterprise which is supposedly more secure but not a great experience overall.

Not self hosted, but see my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30714926

Then you may use the Better BibTeX plugin to get your library into Org.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by greenicon »

bachmeier wrote: post #49

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,…

You can use just the metadata sync by them and sync the actual files with e.g. webdav or syncthing or whatever. That way it's free.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by bsmith89 »

I just tested the PDF reader out for about 5 minutes and I can already say it's substantially better for me on MacOS than any other PDF reader besides Preview. No glitching like Acrobat and the annotations features are more inline with what I want than Preview's are.

Very excited about this.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by kkfx »

WHA8m wrote: post #19

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…

I suggest to store them on de-duplicated filesystem or manually run fdupes and co to hardlink any duplicate in your Zotero lib because most modern websites are full of big js and zotero copy them countless of time, if you have a non marginal set of mirrored pages you probably waste more than 60% of occupied storage just in duplicates...

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by jrochkind1 »

asdff wrote: post #26
Forgeties79 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly I haven’t thought about it since undergrad (history major), I didn’t realize it was still kicking. I might have to fire it back up!

You can even use it as a general knowledge repository since you can save anything on zotero pretty much, not just journal articles.

Mostly just PDFs? Or are there good ways to save non-PDF content?

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by jarvist »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #85
asdff wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can even use it as a general knowledge repository since you can save anything on zotero pretty much, not just journal articles.

Mostly just PDFs? Or are there good ways to save non-PDF content?

The web plugin actually falls back to 'web page with snapshot' if it can't detect a journal paper, which in many ways is better than trying to drag around big PDF binaries.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by asleepawake »

bsmith89 wrote: post #83

I just tested the PDF reader out for about 5 minutes and I can already say it's substantially better for me on MacOS than any other PDF reader besides Preview. No glitching like Acrobat and the annotations features are more inline with what I want than Preview's are. Very excited about this.

i agree it’s great. some minor ux issues. for example if i select text then click highlight it should highlight the selected text. keyboard shortcuts for annotation would be amazing.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 »

I've been using this for years. Zotero is great. It's not perfect, like you still need add-ons to properly support bibtex for latex users, like myself. It would be alot better if this was a fully integrated part of the base zotero platform. But it works and I like it.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by murphyslab »

The annotation features will definitely help Zotero to keep relevant, but Zotero still desperately needs a better option for saving websites. The ability to save sites, via browser extension, as a single file (MHTML or even HTML-only) has been an open request since 2007.

- https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/919/ (2007)

- https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/33516/ (2013)

- https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/68378/ (2017)

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