Zotero is a game changer. Citations have become the easiest part of writing and the tagging feature is incredibly useful when doing a systematic review.
Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
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Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#102Also chiming in to say I used Zotero for my Master's thesis and I was happy with it. With some plugins (I don't remember exactly) I had a very nice pipeline of "find paper on the interntet" -> Zotero -> automatically updated .bib -> trigger rebuild of Latex document to PDF -> automatic reload in PDF viewer. The UI is somewhat dated but the functionality is great. Nowadays I would probably choose Citationsy, maybe onl…
I highly recommend the zotfile plugin! In itself, this plugin made zotero more interesting than the competition.
Zotfile + Better Bibtex is the ticket for me
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#103The problem with this (and Mendeley, Papers, Bibtex, etc.) is that each paper/thought is isolated. Roam Research ( http://roamresearch.com/ ) is my new jam.
What is Roam's financing/business model? So far the beta seems free but investing much time in a tool which then might significantly change is a risk...?
Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#104It's shocking how many Git repos are used to build this project. It seems unnecessary. Personally I find the ability to make atomic commits across different parts of a project very handy. Don't understand the drive to break it into so many parts.
Mostly historical. Zotero began as a Firefox extension, with separate Firefox extensions for the word processor plugins, and later added a standalone app that used the same codebase. Since Firefox discontinued support for XUL extensions, there's only a standalone app and the lightweight browser extensions now, but we haven't gotten around to merging the various build repos. We know it can be a pain to build, though, so streamlining this is planned.
But it's also just a huge ecosystem with parts that are used and developed independently. E.g., "translators" for save/import/export are used in both Zotero and in the Node-based translation-server (used by Wikipedia and others), and we can give commit access to those separately from the core code.
(Disclosure: Zotero developer)
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#105This is so cool! Any plans for working on an iPhone/iPad app?
For a version 1,2,3, etc., it doesn't need to display annotations or notes. Just a local browser for my library with tags would make my life far better.
ps- fellow iPad user: check out Liquid Text. It's the bee's knees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akEMuL4_9sk
Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#106Also chiming in to say I used Zotero for my Master's thesis and I was happy with it. With some plugins (I don't remember exactly) I had a very nice pipeline of "find paper on the interntet" -> Zotero -> automatically updated .bib -> trigger rebuild of Latex document to PDF -> automatic reload in PDF viewer. The UI is somewhat dated but the functionality is great. Nowadays I would probably choose Citationsy, maybe onl…
Used it for my Master's thesis in 2009 (with LaTeX via xelatex), for my wife's Master thesis in 2011 (idem), and now we use it to keep a catalogue of the books we own (just a small home library of about a thousand titles). For the latter Zotero is also great because of its integration with on-line library catalogues. You just type in the ISBN number in the magic box, and the book's metadata is there — in any language…
Pairs well with a USB barcode scanner.
Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#107Also chiming in to say I used Zotero for my Master's thesis and I was happy with it. With some plugins (I don't remember exactly) I had a very nice pipeline of "find paper on the interntet" -> Zotero -> automatically updated .bib -> trigger rebuild of Latex document to PDF -> automatic reload in PDF viewer. The UI is somewhat dated but the functionality is great. Nowadays I would probably choose Citationsy, maybe onl…
I did the same but with JabRef, it's a great and simple piece of battle tested software. Highly recommend it.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're shipping a new version of Polar ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) this weekend that is sort of closer to the roam/zettelkasten idea of managing notes. Here's a video explaining the new functionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6jNlairGc Basically all the documents you read can have tags. So you can manage all your documents via whatever tag you want. You can then read those documents in Polar directly and hig…
Can Polar automaticlaly extract the metadata from a journal article? Also, while I can see tags being useful, I don't think it'll really be Zettelkasten-like until you can link from one annotation to another.
yes... I agree. I'm working on this too. The 2.0 UI will be all re-done in React, better mobile support, including transitions. So you will be able to deep link to other annotations by their ID.
Also, going to work on the ability to link them together with a search and auto-complete system so that you can just start typing tags, or the body of the note, and then they can be linked.
Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're shipping a new version of Polar ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) this weekend that is sort of closer to the roam/zettelkasten idea of managing notes. Here's a video explaining the new functionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6jNlairGc Basically all the documents you read can have tags. So you can manage all your documents via whatever tag you want. You can then read those documents in Polar directly and hig…
Would love to see an option to choose which pdf viewer Polar launches. Wouldn't mind losing out on some features (for lack of integration) as long as I can use my Evince.
You can sort of do this now but part of the power of Polar comes from using our own tools as they support new annotation features not present in other PDF readers.
Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#110The problem with this (and Mendeley, Papers, Bibtex, etc.) is that each paper/thought is isolated. Roam Research ( http://roamresearch.com/ ) is my new jam.
What is Roam's financing/business model? So far the beta seems free but investing much time in a tool which then might significantly change is a risk...?
They are planning to charge $12-15 USD with an annual plan.