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Re: Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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Post by kumarsw »

vodou wrote: post #19

If I mostly want to keep my own document repository (pdf, word, etc) with search ability over all included documents and, maybe, the ability to do notations, is this the right tool? If not, any suggestions?

JabRef. No cloud component and as a bonus the database is just a BibTex file which you can keep in Git.

Re: Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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Post by aragonite »

j4yav wrote: post #7

Out of curiosity what is it? Neither the store link or this one seem to explain. Is it some kind of citations tracking system? A pdf editor? I'm not sure what the features add up to in total.

It's most commonly used by academics for automatically extracting citation metadata from journal article pages from JSTOR, Springer, Elsevier etc. in a structured format (instead of having to enter them manually) and saving them to a local library. Also automatically saves the PDF locally if you have access to it.

It also has a Word add-on that allows you to insert citations as dynamic Word "fields" linked to items in your Zotero Library, so citations can be automatically kept in sync with your Zotero Library and can be easily converted to different formatting styles.

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Post by carlosjobim »

retskrad wrote: post #16

It's funny how on the desktop, Windows has more apps and developers generally target it before MacOS. On mobile, it's the opposite where developers make apps for iOS first and release the Android version months/years later, even though Android has a 70% marketshare in mobile.

Android users don't want to pay for apps, that's why they get lower priority in general.

Re: Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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Post by kbumsik »

j4yav wrote: post #7

Out of curiosity what is it? Neither the store link or this one seem to explain. Is it some kind of citations tracking system? A pdf editor? I'm not sure what the features add up to in total.

Though it is popular in academia, I use it for daily bookmarking too.

Zotero Desktop extension allows you to convert any web page into an offline HTML. I found it very stable.

Re: Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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Post by acdha »

retskrad wrote: post #16

It's funny how on the desktop, Windows has more apps and developers generally target it before MacOS. On mobile, it's the opposite where developers make apps for iOS first and release the Android version months/years later, even though Android has a 70% marketshare in mobile.

It all comes back to revenue: Android has twice the market share but users are about as third as likely to pay for apps / in-app purchases so the market is a lot more even than it might seem. I don’t think that’s because android users are significantly more inclined towards piracy but rather that there are really two groups, and the ones who bought the cheapest phone they could find contribute market share only for free apps.

Re: Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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Post by growingkittens »

vodou wrote: post #19

If I mostly want to keep my own document repository (pdf, word, etc) with search ability over all included documents and, maybe, the ability to do notations, is this the right tool? If not, any suggestions?

Yes, this can be used as a document manager for those purposes, with selected plugins (which ones are based on preference; the list is not too long [1]). It now has the ability open and annotate PDFs, although for a long time it did not. There are additional notetaking plugins.

It doesn't have all the features of traditional document managers, but it will be far better for handling annotations.

[1] https://www.zotero.org/support/plugins

Re: Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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Post by growingkittens »

kumarsw wrote: post #21
vodou wrote: post #19

If I mostly want to keep my own document repository (pdf, word, etc) with search ability over all included documents and, maybe, the ability to do notations, is this the right tool? If not, any suggestions?

JabRef. No cloud component and as a bonus the database is just a BibTex file which you can keep in Git.

I don't know much about JabRef itself, but a quick search seems to indicate that one of the key differences is word document integration - JabRef is focused on bibtex.

Re: Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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Post by CrazyStat »

ZunarJ5 wrote: post #6

There's also Zoo for Zotero. https://github.com/mickstar/Zoo-For-Zotero

I use zoo for zotero on my e-ink android tablet (Boox Tab X). It lacks quite a few zotero features but works well for my workflow—I manage my library on my desktop (downloading papers, adding tags, etc.), then sync to my Tab X where I can read and mark up the pdfs and sync them back to my desktop. It’s a great paper reading experience.
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