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What I (and believe many others) really want is a self-hosted Zotero server. See question has been asked: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/73721/zotero-sel

What I (and believe many others) really want is a self-hosted Zotero server. See question has been asked: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/73721/zotero-self-hosted https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/73721/zotero-self-hoste... https://www.reddit.com/r/zotero/comments/d270kv/zotero_dataserver_selfhosted/ https://www.reddit.com/r/zotero/comments/d270kv/zotero_datas... https://github.com/zotero/dataserver/issues/105 https://github.com/zotero/dataserver/issues/105 https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/48335/foss-and-selfhosted-alternative-to-endnote-zotero https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/48335/foss-... https://groups.google.com/g/zotero-dev/c/9FdSz0kIG_4?pli=1 https://groups.google.com/g/zotero-dev/c/9FdSz0kIG_4?pli=1 Unfortunately, there is no officially supported way to do this. The official dataserver package does not have an instruction: https://github.com/zotero/dataserver https://github.com/zotero/dataserver There is an unofficial package from 5 years ago https://hub.docker.com/r/facciolo/zotero_dataserver-docker https://hub.docker.com/r/facciolo/zotero_dataserver-docker

kergonath 5y ago
I’m in the same boat. Plus, the iPad app was not great at the time, which is very important to me (I read and annotate papers a lot on my iPad, it is an ideal device for this). I dug a bit to see if it was likely to be resolved soon, and it did not seem like it. So I find another solution, which in retrospect was a good thing since that was 5 years ago and the situation has not changed since. FWIW I ended up using Bookends, which can use iCloud for hosting and synchronisation across devices. I wasn’t thrilled initially because it’s a fairly obscure app, but both the Mac and the iPad apps are great. The developer is very friendly and reactive, and it’s been rock solid for years now.
- temp8964 5y ago
  Is this (https://github.com/iandol/bookends-tools https://github.com/iandol/bookends-tools) the Bookends you referring to ? I don't care about citations. All I need is a PDF organizer have categories / tags and can add notes / make annotations.
  - krull10 5y ago
    https://www.sonnysoftware.com/ https://www.sonnysoftware.com/ Great Papers alternative if one wants Mac/iOS support and relatively good (but not perfect) importing from a Papers library.
    - kergonath 5y ago
      Yes, that’s the one. I had been using Papers ever since version 1 beforehand, but I had to look for an alternative after the clusterfuck that was version 3.

kergonath 5y ago

I’m in the same boat. Plus, the iPad app was not great at the time, which is very important to me (I read and annotate papers a lot on my iPad, it is an ideal device for this). I dug a bit to see if it was likely to be resolved soon, and it did not seem like it. So I find another solution, which in retrospect was a good thing since that was 5 years ago and the situation has not changed since. FWIW I ended up using Bookends, which can use iCloud for hosting and synchronisation across devices. I wasn’t thrilled initially because it’s a fairly obscure app, but both the Mac and the iPad apps are great. The developer is very friendly and reactive, and it’s been rock solid for years now.

temp8964 5y ago
Is this (https://github.com/iandol/bookends-tools https://github.com/iandol/bookends-tools) the Bookends you referring to ? I don't care about citations. All I need is a PDF organizer have categories / tags and can add notes / make annotations.
- krull10 5y ago
  https://www.sonnysoftware.com/ https://www.sonnysoftware.com/ Great Papers alternative if one wants Mac/iOS support and relatively good (but not perfect) importing from a Papers library.
  - kergonath 5y ago
    Yes, that’s the one. I had been using Papers ever since version 1 beforehand, but I had to look for an alternative after the clusterfuck that was version 3.