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I use Zotero as a bookmarking too. It saves the files and articles offline.
Can you do highlighting in the browser as well? Then it might be absolutely amazing. I outlined what I'm looking for here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29776997 Do you think this might be possible with Zotero after all?
Zotero is, if you're not in the market for a closed source silo like EndNote, the only game left in town. Mendeley went full on Evil, and Papers for Mac is Mac only, closed source, and missing dozens of functionalities that are absolutely a must have in academic writing and research. An absolute must have is BetterBibTex ( https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/ ), which adds better Citekey management and, my perso…
As of a few years ago there is also a Windows app, and you can use it in the browser. https://papersapp.com
What makes this different than Devonthink other than the citation management?
I heard an article on the radio the other day (BBC) about some researcher developing meta data standards to embed bibliography data into PDFs. Basically stash the relevant refs from your bibtex (or other) database into the PDF in a machine readable way and develop open source tools to parse that and allow navigation to online or local sources. Seems like a pretty good idea. But I can't remember who it was / what it's…
Hi, that was Vint Cerf and me, Frode Hegland. The project we talked about is called Visual-Meta. You can read about it here: https://visual-meta.info or contact me with any questions: frode@hegland.com Thanks for listening! :-)
Zotero is, if you're not in the market for a closed source silo like EndNote, the only game left in town. Mendeley went full on Evil, and Papers for Mac is Mac only, closed source, and missing dozens of functionalities that are absolutely a must have in academic writing and research. An absolute must have is BetterBibTex ( https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/ ), which adds better Citekey management and, my perso…
>Zotero can do anything EndNote can do, is Open Source, and with that won't drive your PI up the wall with yet another expense. My university offers EndNote (plus Web of Science and the Clarivate stack) for free for students and many of them don't use it - they'd rather manually manage the bibliography in their Word documents. The university even ran tutorials to show them how to set it up, add citations, and export…
Paperpile is a good alternative. I don't mind paying for them, though only hitch is that they are dependent on Google Drive alone to save your papers. Not technically open source, but they have come a long way with exciting features on the roadmap.
It seems Zotero still doesn't support 3rd party cloud service (Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud etc). I really recommend Paperpile, especially its Chrome extension. In my opionion, nothing beats Google Docs on collaborative writing.
Zotero is, if you're not in the market for a closed source silo like EndNote, the only game left in town. Mendeley went full on Evil, and Papers for Mac is Mac only, closed source, and missing dozens of functionalities that are absolutely a must have in academic writing and research. An absolute must have is BetterBibTex ( https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/ ), which adds better Citekey management and, my perso…
If the town is "online reference managers," you are probably right, but I would argue that reference managers are one of those areas where you really want something offline: - Offline ensures that you do not suffer an externally caused downtime just before a deadline - Offline ensures that you have a path for keeping your database throughout your research career, and to do system updates when _you_ want to. - Offline…
Zotero is, if you're not in the market for a closed source silo like EndNote, the only game left in town. Mendeley went full on Evil, and Papers for Mac is Mac only, closed source, and missing dozens of functionalities that are absolutely a must have in academic writing and research. An absolute must have is BetterBibTex ( https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/ ), which adds better Citekey management and, my perso…
>Zotero can do anything EndNote can do, is Open Source, and with that won't drive your PI up the wall with yet another expense. My university offers EndNote (plus Web of Science and the Clarivate stack) for free for students and many of them don't use it - they'd rather manually manage the bibliography in their Word documents. The university even ran tutorials to show them how to set it up, add citations, and export…
Zotero is, if you're not in the market for a closed source silo like EndNote, the only game left in town. Mendeley went full on Evil, and Papers for Mac is Mac only, closed source, and missing dozens of functionalities that are absolutely a must have in academic writing and research. An absolute must have is BetterBibTex ( https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/ ), which adds better Citekey management and, my perso…
If the town is "online reference managers," you are probably right, but I would argue that reference managers are one of those areas where you really want something offline: - Offline ensures that you do not suffer an externally caused downtime just before a deadline - Offline ensures that you have a path for keeping your database throughout your research career, and to do system updates when _you_ want to. - Offline…