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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)