It'd be interesting if someone can compare it to Evernote.
I don't think it is similar at all. I haven't used evernote but it is for notes and things right? This is just for citations.
Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
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Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#82The problem with this (and Mendeley, Papers, Bibtex, etc.) is that each paper/thought is isolated. Roam Research ( http://roamresearch.com/ ) is my new jam.
We're shipping a new version of Polar ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) this weekend that is sort of closer to the roam/zettelkasten idea of managing notes. Here's a video explaining the new functionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6jNlairGc Basically all the documents you read can have tags. So you can manage all your documents via whatever tag you want. You can then read those documents in Polar directly and hig…
Does the new version handle citations/bibtex export? I really want to use polar but that’s the main value of zotero for me atm.
Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#83I have used Zotero for years. I can't imagine writing a paper without it. I know some academics still do all their citations by hand. Fuck that shit. I can't imagine doing that - especially when journals often have their own citation style and if you get rejected by one and submit to another you may have to change all the citation formats.
Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#84I don't use Zotero any more, but from the receiving end, the BibTeX it exports is terrible. Lots of non-ascii chars, bizarre nested curly braces, wrong capitalization detection, etc. I dislike collaborating with colleagues who use Zotero because it takes so much time to clean up their BibTeX entries.
Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#85Anyone else here who only uses Jabref?
used jabref myself a lot, mainly because it's easy to understand how it works (all state is in your .bib files). never really missed any features.
Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#86The killer feature of zotero is, that it is customizeable with different plugins. One very neat one is the integration with scihub. So you just paste in the DOI and it automaticly downloads the paper and adds all the metadata.
Pretty sure I'm the author of the plugin you're talking about :) I did a few updates recently, but I welcome any additions/PRs anyone wants to send.
Yes you are, thank you very much!
Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#87Zotero phones home with perhaps more information than you expect.[1] By default, there's a persistent connection whenever Zotero is running, a request when you visit a site with a translator (eg NYTimes) the first time since a browser start, when you download a PDF, etc. I enjoyed using it, but their approach to privacy felt creepy. That [1] is somewhat improved... but only somewhat. [1] https://www.zotero.org/suppor…
(Disclosure: Zotero developer) Criticizing Zotero for privacy, of all things, is a bit bizarre. Zotero is an open-source project from a nonprofit organization with no financial interest in people's research data. It's designed as a local tool specifically to give people complete control over their data, and it's developed in the open. Most similar tools are proprietary programs owned by major publishers or analytics…
Zotero's privacy features even extend to where data is stored: you can bring your own WebDAV server [1] and have Zotero store data there.
Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#88Zotero phones home with perhaps more information than you expect.[1] By default, there's a persistent connection whenever Zotero is running, a request when you visit a site with a translator (eg NYTimes) the first time since a browser start, when you download a PDF, etc. I enjoyed using it, but their approach to privacy felt creepy. That [1] is somewhat improved... but only somewhat. [1] https://www.zotero.org/suppor…
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Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#89The problem with this (and Mendeley, Papers, Bibtex, etc.) is that each paper/thought is isolated. Roam Research ( http://roamresearch.com/ ) is my new jam.
We're shipping a new version of Polar ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) this weekend that is sort of closer to the roam/zettelkasten idea of managing notes. Here's a video explaining the new functionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6jNlairGc Basically all the documents you read can have tags. So you can manage all your documents via whatever tag you want. You can then read those documents in Polar directly and hig…
Would it be possible to export annotations into a markdown+wikilink syntax to import into Roam?
I love the idea of Polar for document management, and Roam for knowledge management, so I'd love to find a way to use both
Re: Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
#90It's shocking how many Git repos are used to build this project. It seems unnecessary. Personally I find the ability to make atomic commits across different parts of a project very handy. Don't understand the drive to break it into so many parts.