Another main reason is that many of the “free but pay-to-win” 1 reference managers are being developed by those companies we, as academics, hate for locking away our publicly financed research behind ridiculous paywalls.įirst, one often-cited example is Mendeley. One of the main reasons for this is that the reference manager market is flooded by companies that try to make academics pay for having a decent reference manager. What normally counts as an “alternative” to Zotero is software that is completely useless and ridiculously wrong in so many aspects. Due to historical reasons Zotero looks and feels a lot like older versions of Firefoxįirst things first: Why the heck am I so provocatively stating that there is no alternative to Zotero (except JabRef)? Normally, I’d always say “Hey, you do you!” because even if I found some other software not as helpful, it was still an alternative, and who am I to judge your workflow, right? Well, with reference managers there are several reasons for why this doesn’t apply.Plenty of plugins for the picky researcher.Online-synchronisation and collaborative work.Central reference management with everything you’ll ever need.Alternatives: JabRef (macOS/Windows/Linux).Supported Platforms: macOS/Windows/Linux.Is this provocative? I hope so! Continue reading to see why I think this way! There is a multitude of reference managers out there, but none is any good for managing references, so Zotero, which I use, is pretty much without alternative. Every academic needs to read papers to do science™ and due to the sheer amount of texts to read, managing them becomes inevitable very quickly. This certainly has to do with reference managers being one of the most fundamental aspects of any digital writing workflow. Reference management is something academics can discuss with an amount of enthusiasm seldomly seen in scientific contexts. Mine is Zotero, and in this article I want to shed light upon why it’s almost without any alternative, and how I use it to read many papers in a short amount of time – and also, why I neglect many features of Zotero. However, even before I write any sentence, it’s important to read something and sort that into a decent reference manager. As you can see, we’re closing in on the “big” app Zettlr, which is my central hub for writing. I’ve tried all the reasonable combinations of preferences-file-main file directory, database specific file directories,Īnd preferences - import- file directory pattern without getting this apparently simple result.Today’s article of my series on how I work deals with my reference management. While this seems correct (not a bug), what I would like to obtain is a cleanup action that does not move theĮxternal file from where it is (I use cleanup only for renamiing the files), or, as an alternative, getting the same result specifiying as main file directory the root of my hard disk. the root of any main file directory I specify in preference-external file links-main or db properties-generali file….the bibtext file location (no main file directory specified).The cleanup procedure moves the linked file to a directory that can be, depending on the settings specified: Linking to a file in the hierarchy of my hard disk (e.g.:driveletter:\folder1\folder2\folder3\file.pdf) This approach is consistent to what I do, and it’s been working for a long time. I keep files linked to my entries troughout the whole hard disk, not only just a main directory. I’ve been happily using Jabref since the early 2.x releases, but now I have problem I just can’t solve.
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