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Posted by bouchard 4 hours ago

Zotero 8(www.zotero.org)
104 points | 18 commentspage 2
Tomte 3 hours ago|
I‘ve been using it as a general bookmark manager (think Pinboard or Raindrop) for a while now. It‘s a bit quirky, but very powerful with all the management and annotation possibilities.

You might say it was just another excuse to curate my thousands of bookmarks and recreate a new tagging structure yet again, but… well, you wouldn‘t be wrong. :-)

throwaway_24242 3 hours ago|
amazing tool thank you
vitorsr 2 hours ago||
Zotero is built on top of Firefox ESR.
ifh-hn 2 hours ago||
Im unaware of another open source tool that provides all zotero does that's lighter weight. I can guarantee it's better than using text files on disk.
mxuribe 28 minutes ago|||
Hi @ifh-hn , would you mind sharing what features you feel might make zotero better than text files on a disk? I'm genuinely interested to learn.

I've heard of zotero maybe a year or so ago, and was curious about it, but never took the plunge. I manage the bulk of my info/knowledge base across mostly locally-saved text files, with a few other tidbits leveraging PDFs and word process files (.odt, .docx)...and really i only use the latter for pasting in screenshots. And, then of course simply synching them across devices using syncthing.

While my approach works great for the majority of the time, i can imagine there might be some functions that some other tools might bring me which i might be missing...I suppose one thing that i lack is a graph of linkages for content that might live in different, separate files but might be related, etc. So, would you be willing to share your opinion, experience for what makes zotero better than text files on a disk? :-) Thanks!

ifh-hn 2 minutes ago||
I use it in an academic sense. I use it browser plugin to one click capture a source. Zotero mostly automatically identifies the source type, author, and other metadata. It can retrieve metadata directly from files like pdfs too. Further it has ability to retrieve metadata from ISBN, doi, and other identifiers. It can export these sources to really any citation style and also integrates with other software for this purpose. It has a plugin system for extras too.

I have nothing against text files on the disk but zotero is simply much better as a knowledge/source manager.