diff --git a/showandtell/presentations/Zotero.md b/showandtell/presentations/Zotero.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..92699cf --- /dev/null +++ b/showandtell/presentations/Zotero.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +If you spend a lot of time trying to remember papers, presentations, textbooks, blog posts, stack overflow answers, or twitter threads from 3 years go, then you may want **Zotero**. + +It's a normal desktop application, there's a cloud tool I dont use, and a really useful Firefox extension. + +## It's basically bookmarking with some extra features: + +* Automatically extract info like authors, title, metadata, and links. +* You can attach the snapshot or PDF automatically or manually. This prevents link rot, which is great. + +There's some others too: +* You can add notes and then search through them later. It's occasionally useful. +* Tagging and "collections" make some sense. +* Importing from bibtex +* Duplicate detection + +There's also a lot of features that make sense only for academics like automatic bibtex export or even other citation styles. + +## Things it doesn't do right + +* Can't add your own citation type (like web applet or something). So limited to just "websites" for some things. +* Doesn't store youtube videos +* Does not provide text search inside of PDFs +* It doesn't let you keep a stack/queue of interesting papers or such (i.e. it's not Pocket) \ No newline at end of file