Zotero 8

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Post by bouchard » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

Re: Zotero 8

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Post by dhash » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:01 PM UTC

Post Mendeley shutdown, zotero has been an awesome replacement (while not being controlled by Elsevier). Given the amount of PDF's that I see during researchy times in my life, it's been an absolute godsend. Highly reccommend!

Re: Zotero 8

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Post by Tomte » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:25 PM UTC

I‘ve been using it as a general bookmark manager (think Pinboard or Raindrop) for a while now. It‘s a bit quirky, but very powerful with all the management and annotation possibilities.

You might say it was just another excuse to curate my thousands of bookmarks and recreate a new tagging structure yet again, but… well, you wouldn‘t be wrong. :-)

Re: Zotero 8

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Post by dakiol » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:27 PM UTC

I've been using Zotero as my "book" organizer. I have all my epubs, pdfs, everything there. Since version 7 I think you can read PDFs within Zotero, and I love it. I keep custom labels so I easily search for stuff. The only feature I don't use is everything about citation (funny enough). Before Zotero I had everything in file system directories, but I wanted the feeling of having one place (one app) where I could see all my books by category, by read/no-read, etc.

Having said this, I will probably wait a bit before upgrading to V8 (since I use it everyday, so I wouldn't like to face bugs and the like)

Re: Zotero 8

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Post by majkinetor » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:42 PM UTC

Zotero is very good nowadays. Its unbearably slow though, and it doesn't seem this will ever get better.

Re: Zotero 8

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Post by kstrauser » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:43 PM UTC

My kid was talking about all the papers they had to cite in their college class. I started to suggest that they check out Zotero, but they stopped me to explain that their teachers already had them all using it.

Thank you for getting the kids started off on the right foot, professor!

Re: Zotero 8

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Post by throwaway_24242 » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:43 PM UTC

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Re: Zotero 8

#8

Post by malshe » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:49 PM UTC

If you use Zotero regularly and can afford it, please consider becoming a paying member.

https://www.zotero.org/getinvolved

Re: Zotero 8

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Post by ifh-hn » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:50 PM UTC

throwaway_24242 wrote: post #7

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Im unaware of another open source tool that provides all zotero does that's lighter weight. I can guarantee it's better than using text files on disk.

Re: Zotero 8

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Post by vitorsr » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:55 PM UTC

throwaway_24242 wrote: post #7

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Zotero is built on top of Firefox ESR.