I hoped they've fixed Google Docs stability (deactivating GDocs' Work Offline is supposed to help with this, we'll see..) as well as reducing the time for a bibliography update when the number of citations is over 100 - it's currently taking 20+ seconds (happening in the background as I write)
Zotero 6
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Re: Zotero 6
#102No post body was provided.
Re: Zotero 6
#103OMG, I've been waiting for an iOS app for Zotero for so long. Yay!
Re: Zotero 6
#104I hoped they've fixed Google Docs stability (deactivating GDocs' Work Offline is supposed to help with this, we'll see..) as well as reducing the time for a bibliography update when the number of citations is over 100 - it's currently taking 20+ seconds (happening in the background as I write)
And even still encountering the dreaded "these citations have become unlinked from Zotero" - this is the equivalent of the blue-screen-of-death for OS's . . . maybe Zotero should focus on improving this stability rather than new feature build-out and I would be come a paying customer/member?
Re: Zotero 6
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Thanks! I've used zotero only minimally, mostly to support users of my software who use zotero, rather than using it myself for my own purposes. Is the "web plugin" something built into zotero, or an extra plugin to install? Calling it "plugin" makes it sound like something extra to install, but not finding it easily googling. Help me out?
I think OP talks about the Zotero Connector Browser Plugin. So its not a plugin for zotero but your browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Edge are supported)
The plugin ads a button to the Browser where you can add the currently viewed page to your database.
It even tries to detect references to papers or other content and choose the matching entry type. Eg on Google Scholar you can choose which search result you want to add. It its a PDF the file gets saved to your zotero database.
All in all very handy.
Re: Zotero 6
#106I'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…
Zotero also offers out it the box WebDAV Support for file sync. I use that to sync files using my Nextcloud. Once it is set up, everything works behind the scenes.
Re: Zotero 6
#107The 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…
Zotero has saved webpage snapshots as single HTML files since November 2020. We're using SingleFile under the hood. (Disclosure: Zotero dev)
I'd been watching the changelogs for it intermittently and never caught it. Guessing that this is you: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/85306/available-for-bet...
My apologies for the erroneous comment and massive THANKS! for adding that feature.
Re: Zotero 6
#108Zotero is hiring (16 days ago here on HN):
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dstillman
Re: Zotero 6
#109I recently found my mendeley app doesn't work anymore (they've discontinued it) so I decided to try Zotero. To my surprise they have 3 Android apps.. none of which work and a bookmarklet which also doesn't work. Has anyone found a way to easily save papers on Android?
You can save urls or identifiers to your library from https://www.zotero.org/save or using the magic wand icon in your web library.
We just stopped linking to the bookmarklet on the download page. Unfortunately browsers no longer support them well if at all.
There is an open job post for an Android developer, but none of the existing Android apps are first party.
(Disclosure: Zotero dev)
Re: Zotero 6
#110The only thing holding me back from using Zotero is that, afaik, you need to use a Zotero account to reliably sync metadata between devices (the Zotero Data Server isn't supported). I wish it was easier to self-host; there's no reason for me to interact with their servers. It's always a disappointment to find otherwise great open source projects that have key components that deny privacy.
Hint: You can sync the library for free by making an account. You need the "Zotero Storage" only if you want to sync the files as well. However, you can simply sync the folder ~/Zotero/storage using SyncThing. You could also use WebDAV, but SyncThing is just so much easier (set up & forget). The IDs/Metadata is consistent among syncs. :) Of course, that doesn't resolve the privacy concerns, but personally idc about t…
This is completely missing the point of GP. You can't (unless something has changed) sync metadata without using their servers. webdav is for the data, not the metadata. If you don't personally care about privacy, fine, but that's irrelevant here.
Replicating the local Zotero folder across devices won't properly sync the metadata in the face of concurrent changes.
If I didn't care about privacy and freedom I would have just used a proprietary product to begin with. It's an incredibly disappointing situation to have dragged on like this for so many years.
Edit: Looks like nothing has changed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774935