Zotero works with LibreOffice as well. It helped me tons while writing my thesis!
Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
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Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#22We tried to migrate a reference library with more than 17k entries, but it never worked out beyond 2k. Sorry to say: might be fine for small personal projects, for anything serious I don't see how.
What problems did you encounter with this large library?
The import via API failed too often.
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#23What I (and believe many others) really want is a self-hosted Zotero server. See question has been asked:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/73721/zotero-self-hoste...
https://www.reddit.com/r/zotero/comments/d270kv/zotero_datas...
https://github.com/zotero/dataserver/issues/105
https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/48335/foss-...
https://groups.google.com/g/zotero-dev/c/9FdSz0kIG_4?pli=1
Unfortunately, there is no officially supported way to do this. The official dataserver package does not have an instruction: https://github.com/zotero/dataserver
There is an unofficial package from 5 years ago https://hub.docker.com/r/facciolo/zotero_dataserver-docker
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#24We tried to migrate a reference library with more than 17k entries, but it never worked out beyond 2k. Sorry to say: might be fine for small personal projects, for anything serious I don't see how.
I’ve been using Zotero since it was in beta in 2007, and have a library with tens of thousands of items. As dstillman says that’s hardly unusual. It works perfectly (it’s just a SQLite db with a mature, well-designed schema after all), and syncs perfectly across five devices.
Funny, we tried probably your solution for imports? urschrei/pyzotero is yours?
Failed all the time. To be fair we got a lot of 5xx, so maybe we were just out of luck.
Anyway time ran out with that project.
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#25Is anyone using Zotero as a bookmark manager for articles to read later?
I’d love to try it for this purpose!
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#26Is anyone using Zotero as a bookmark manager for articles to read later? I’d love to try it for this purpose!
Yup, just install the browser addon and it works for this too.
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#27I found Zotero very confusing to use. But maybe I am not the target demographic. I have always just used vim txt files for notes, using cli tools like grep to find what I need.
It sounds like you might not be the target demo. Zotero is mainly for generating bibiliographies not note taking. It has notes in it but it is pretty basic.
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#28What I (and believe many others) really want is a self-hosted Zotero server. See question has been asked: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/73721/zotero-self-hoste... https://www.reddit.com/r/zotero/comments/d270kv/zotero_datas... https://github.com/zotero/dataserver/issues/105 https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/48335/foss-... https://groups.google.com/g/zotero-dev/c/9FdSz0kIG_4?pli=1 Unfortunately,…
I’m in the same boat. Plus, the iPad app was not great at the time, which is very important to me (I read and annotate papers a lot on my iPad, it is an ideal device for this). I dug a bit to see if it was likely to be resolved soon, and it did not seem like it. So I find another solution, which in retrospect was a good thing since that was 5 years ago and the situation has not changed since.
FWIW I ended up using Bookends, which can use iCloud for hosting and synchronisation across devices. I wasn’t thrilled initially because it’s a fairly obscure app, but both the Mac and the iPad apps are great. The developer is very friendly and reactive, and it’s been rock solid for years now.
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#29I used to use Mendeley, but after the evil empire bought them out and added anti-features like preventing export of the DB (or something like that, I don't remember exactly what it was anymore), I switched to Zotero. I was on the verge of exiting academic research at the time, so I don't have as much experience of Zotero, but it seems very solid. Strongly recommended! (Occasionally I wonder about how Zotero developme…
Back in February someone in the forums wrote:
"Zotero won't be moving to Electron anytime soon.
We are planning to move to a more current version of the Firefox base later this year." https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/376000/#Comment...
Re: Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
#30I like Zotero and used in in producing our latest manuscript, but in Google Docs, with 140 cites it became unwieldy and would break the sync between the in-text cites in the bibliography. So I had to save new versions of my Google Doc every time I added a cite so I always has a backup to return to in case the sync broke again.
I hope the Google Docs devs can talk with the Zotero devs to make the Zotero integration more airtight (I understand these issues don’t flare up as much in Word).