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Why would someone use pocket over zotero?
by gjjrfcbugxbhf 10y ago
Why would someone use pocket over zotero?
- lllllll 10y agoIn my case, because it syncs with my Kobo Aura HD ebook reader. That way I can read "my internet" offline :)
- mcintyre1994 10y agoI just searched zotero in the App Store and got nothing, so because every morning I save stuff from Feedly into Pocket and I have no idea how I'd do that with zotero.
- gjjrfcbugxbhf 10y agoDid you try googling that?
- mcintyre1994 10y agoYea, I found their website : https://www.zotero.org/ https://www.zotero.org/ Available for Windows, Mac and Linux. So no mobile apps at all, Pocket apps are great so that's a good reason to choose them over Zotero.
- dredmorbius 10y agoFair question, and one I'm asking myself increasingly, though: 1. Zotero doesn't have a full-service (or any?) Android app. Which is my primary reading platform. So it's simply not an option. 2. More straightforward onramp. It's pretty easy to figure out what the fuck to do with Pocket, though after a bit, it gets utterly unusable with scale (I've got ~3-4k articles, possibly more, the fact that I can't even extract a !@#$%^&() count is a major PITA, and referencing them Simply Doesn't Work. 3. Simplified and uniform presentation. Web design isn't the solution. Web design is the problem. I prefer Pocket's styling to ANYTHING* any website can throw at me, with exceptions I can count on the fingers of one hand. Most of which I've made myself. Frankly, I'm utterly frustrated with use of the Web as a research and archival tool, and none of the options I've seen yet are satisfactory.