Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
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Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
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#2I used to use this almost 10+ years ago to organize my research during my masters. Love Zotero, glad to see it's still around!
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#3One of the killer features is the multi-platform support, including web browsers, in combination with synchronization across devices and the Google Docs plugin. Makes working on a paper across multiple devices super easy.
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#4My workflow is:
1. Come across paper pdf on the web.
2. Use Zotero firefox plugin to import it into Zotero. Zotero is able get citation data, and automatically exports it to a bib file.
3. Use emacs helm, which reads the bib file, to cite papers in my documents.
I would have really loved to have this workflow during my Phd, but I was doing everything manually back then. My only complaint is this recent silent change in Zotero, where the exported bib file has entries in alphabetical order, rather than in last-added order. With the last-added order, when I popped open emacs helm, the last added paper would be on top. Now I have to search for it.
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#5Easily one of the most useful programs I've installed for work.
Best feature is the web browser add-on. Can open up a few dozen articles during a literature search and dump all of them into Zotero for reading later.
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#6Zotero was also the first reference manger to use CSL, the Citation Style Language [1], now adopted by many other apps including Mendeley and Citationsy.
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#7Wouldn't have made it through my doctorate without Zotero. The plugins and MS Word integration made paper writing (almost) enjoyable! Instead of wasting hours on formatting my bibliography/citations, Zotero did the same work in about 2 minutes. Kudos to the folks who maintain this incredible resource, and a big personal thank you!
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#8I'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/
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#9Used Zotero with Firefox plugin and word plugin. Used to use Mendeley, but like the open source nature of Zotero.
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#10One of the killer features is the multi-platform support, including web browsers, in combination with synchronization across devices and the Google Docs plugin. Makes working on a paper across multiple devices super easy.
Mendeley has this feature too. Their current desktop uses Qt.
One of the other things going for Mendeley is seamless sync between an iPad and a desktop. Their cloud limit is 2GB free storage.
Though Zotero has Zotfile, it’s a hassle to set up tablet sync with an iOS device.