I recently switched to Zotero from Papers, which is only for OS X and I needed to work on a Linux computer. After Papers was acquired by ReadCube, I was also co

I recently switched to Zotero from Papers, which is only for OS X and I needed to work on a Linux computer. After Papers was acquired by ReadCube, I was also concerned it would end up like Mendeley, which has a social network model that I don't particularly like. On the whole, the transition was pretty effortless and I am pleased with Zotero (plus the Better BibTex plugin and webdav syncing). I like having the rss feeds inside the client. The firefox add-on is far superior to the Papers version. And finally, because it's an open source project with a reasonable ecosystem, many of the things I found annoying about Papers have been solved (like customizing which fields to exclude from a bibtex export).