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Re: Zotero 6

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Post by walleeee »

hoistbypetard wrote: post #65

Wow. I opened the Linux tarball and had a look around... what a blast from the past. It looks like this is built on XULRunner and friends. I had the impression that platform had slipped into such disrepair that it was no longer practical to ship products based on it. It looks tremendously useful, though. If it had been around when I was in school, I suspect I'd have found it indispensable.

my impression too. the documentation is no longer on MDN...

still, Zotero team has built amazing software on top of it. dstillman and team do awesome work.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by mbeex »

Tenoke wrote: post #97

I 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?

I'm using "Zoo for Zotero". Works for me as a more or less r/o synchronizer. My data are webdav-accessible hosted.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by david_draco »

exhilaration wrote: post #71
cholmon wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never heard "billy" used like this before now, thanks for the clarification.

It transcends nation, culture, and language. In the future, we will measure the distance between the stars in billies.

and insects in millibillies

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by azxd123 »

bluenose69 wrote: post #54

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…

And also, Zotero is not that expensive. And I'll be happy to support such an awesome project.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by fipar »

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.

That is exactly how I use it and it works great for that.

Among other things, I love that I can subscribe to RSS feeds and then save individual items I want to be able to reference later on.

Before that I tried several things, local bookmarks, bookmark services (actually just delicious), and an org file for references, but Zotero is the most seamless system for knowledge repository for my use case.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by jumelles »

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.

Have you tried Skim?

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by ashton314 »

I’ve been using the better of this for, gosh, must be about two years now. It has been so much fun to use. I read papers and annotate them on my iPad, and it syncs up to my laptop without any problems. I recently considered turning on WebDAV to sync my growing collection of documents, but Zotero has been so useful to my workflow, that I decided to buy some storage from them. I am more than happy to give them a few bucks to keep working on this awesome product. It has significantly simplified my research workflow, and it is so valuable to me for that.

Re: Zotero 6

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Post by wlkr »

jjoonathan wrote: post #32
noodlesUK wrote: post #2

Zotero is one of those pieces of open source software that has really improved my life. I first discovered it as a teenager and it revolutionised writing papers and managing sources. Sadly I don’t find myself using it that much in my job. I always got a kick out of introducing it to my friends in the humanities and blowing their minds. I have no idea how anyone writes papers without zotero or another similar tool. Ke…

Agreed. What really blows my mind is how many of my academically inclined friends manage (and cloud sync) a big library of pirated papers using a rival piece of software owned by a major rights holder of said pirated papers. I mean... there's a good chance nothing will come of it, but it just seems like tempting fate. Zotero isn't just good enough, it's so good that the choice is completely trivial IMO! Thanks, Zoter…

There is a very nice (so I'm told...) plugin for Zotero to automatically fetch papers from Sci-Hub based on DOI [0].

[0] https://github.com/ethanwillis/zotero-scihub

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