A college professor taught me about Zotero during my last semester. Awesome tool, but I wish I learned about it years before. I try and teach every student I meet about it.
Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
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#22I've used Mendeley Desktop for some time, which I believe is very similar in functionality (but proprietary, yes Elsevier!): https://www.mendeley.com/download-desktop-new/ Furthermore I think http://www.docear.org/ deserves to be mentioned as another free open-source solution with some interesting mind-mapping functionality: http://www.docear.org/software/screenshots/
I reluctantly switched from Zotero to Mendeley as Mendeley has Android app that synchronises highlights, notes, read-progress etc. with the desktop version. It made reading papers on my tablet a delight.
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#23Does it also have support for managing scans/photographs? I have about 10 Gbyte of images with respect to a research project about art works. The images also contain scans of materials. I would like to extract facts from these documents and maintain a link between those links and the scans. This means being able to annotate a part of an image, which for example is a text with an illustration or a mentioning of a cert…
The same people doing zotero have another project https://tropy.org/ which might be what you're looking for? (Disclaimer: I haven't used tropy personally)
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#24Was looking at this just yesterday. Anyone have success self-hosting this?
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#25The problem with this (and Mendeley, Papers, Bibtex, etc.) is that each paper/thought is isolated. Roam Research ( http://roamresearch.com/ ) is my new jam.
Roam is awesome but this and other reference management software serves a different purpose (for me, at least). I use BibDesk (like Zotero and other examples mentioned here) in conjunction with a plaintext (markdown) Zettelkasten[0]. BibDesk to save references (papers etc.) and copy formatted citations; which are then pasted into Zettels (c.f. a page in Roam).
[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NfdHG6oHBJ8Qxc26s/the-zettel...
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#26Also 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…
Same here. I used it for my first Master's thesis(in biological sciences). I could not make Mendeley work with Word. Zotero works great for writing thesis and research paper with Word.
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#27The problem with this (and Mendeley, Papers, Bibtex, etc.) is that each paper/thought is isolated. Roam Research ( http://roamresearch.com/ ) is my new jam.
I'm gently easing myself into the Roam knowledgebase management style by using Emacs+org-mode+org-roam.
It's definitely one of those topics where you could spend a huge amount of energy organizing but not much actually doing :)
Regarding roamresearch.com: How do you find yourself writing/organizing pages? Daily journal with a log of what you did first, then linking out from there?
(don't feel pressured to write a novel in response, I don't want to steal time from your day!)
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#28So another great thing about Zotero is that you can share public bibligraphies. I've taken to making a little QR code at the end of my presentations that links to my bibliography (since no one actually reads the bibs on your last 4 slides).
Here's an example from a talk I gave on Variational Autoencoders: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2350257/jszym_presentations/co...
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#29I used Zotero and their Chrome Extension when I was reading research papers. It automatically formatted citations, allowed me to add annotations and also locally saved any PDFs so I can access it quickly. You can also send different types of links such as videos, PDFs articles directly to Zotero.
I'd highly recommend it!
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#30The problem with this (and Mendeley, Papers, Bibtex, etc.) is that each paper/thought is isolated. Roam Research ( http://roamresearch.com/ ) is my new jam.
How does Roam differ from a wiki app like Zim/Tomboy?