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Yeah, I just stumbled upon this project and wanted to share, I'm currently using Obsidian for my personal wiki, but I use Zotero a lot as a paper repo and reade

Yeah, I just stumbled upon this project and wanted to share, I'm currently using Obsidian for my personal wiki, but I use Zotero a lot as a paper repo and reader, the organization and metadata tools are great, and extending it to a more powerful note-taking tool seems like a no-brainer. Now it just needs an EPUB reader to replace Calibre, then it'd just be the perfect all-in-one personal library. For now I'm using this plugin that exports and keeps in sync the calibre library to Zotero: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3339191 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3339191 Very grateful that this open source project stays alive, I've seen attempts over the years from startups and other projects to tackle on spaces like pkm, research, paperless office, to then be abandoned yet Zotero keeps getting updates. There's also Tropy, from the same organization that develops Zotero, for organizing digital assets: https://tropy.org/ https://tropy.org/ Getting a bit off-topic, but this thing could use some sort of Moodboard designer to visually sort the assets in a canvas, kind of what you can do with Miro, Notion, Mural or locally with Obsidian Canvas/Excalidraw. On that note, there's also this project that takes on that space, previously featured on HN but has made significant progress lately: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE

imsaw 3y ago
I also think an epub reader in zotero would make it a complete library manager. I used Calibre just for reading epubs, so I want to ask how and why do you need to sync its metadata with zotero?
- mickelsen 3y ago
  I just like having the entire collection of files in one place, some of them are textbooks or reference books that don't sit well in either app entirely, and while I also keep novels there in a separate subcollection, most of my ebooks are non-fiction, where topics are the same or related to the rest of material I already keep in Zotero. Some are non-academic PDFs, blueprints, guides, whitepapers or manuals that I refer to for a given project, and while this is not the main purpose of Zotero, as it is a research-oriented tool, it still proves more useful than other tools, tidier than classical folders+files, and less of a hassle than coming up with my own system using something like Obsidian's dataview plugin. Calibre I prefer it to fix the metadata of my ebooks, but the local reading story isn't ideal for me. I've tried serving the collection over self-hosted web apps, to keep the page progress like calibre-web, but it wasn't ideal for me or conducive to what I look for: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
adr1an 3y ago
IDK if it helps you, but a simple epub reader is Bookworm.
- mickelsen 3y ago
  It's lovely but I'm on a Mac. For now I've been switching between Google's reader and now trying Yomu (https://www.yomu-reader.com/ https://www.yomu-reader.com/) but ideally I'd use something open source.

imsaw 3y ago

I also think an epub reader in zotero would make it a complete library manager. I used Calibre just for reading epubs, so I want to ask how and why do you need to sync its metadata with zotero?

mickelsen 3y ago
I just like having the entire collection of files in one place, some of them are textbooks or reference books that don't sit well in either app entirely, and while I also keep novels there in a separate subcollection, most of my ebooks are non-fiction, where topics are the same or related to the rest of material I already keep in Zotero. Some are non-academic PDFs, blueprints, guides, whitepapers or manuals that I refer to for a given project, and while this is not the main purpose of Zotero, as it is a research-oriented tool, it still proves more useful than other tools, tidier than classical folders+files, and less of a hassle than coming up with my own system using something like Obsidian's dataview plugin. Calibre I prefer it to fix the metadata of my ebooks, but the local reading story isn't ideal for me. I've tried serving the collection over self-hosted web apps, to keep the page progress like calibre-web, but it wasn't ideal for me or conducive to what I look for: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

adr1an 3y ago

IDK if it helps you, but a simple epub reader is Bookworm.

mickelsen 3y ago
It's lovely but I'm on a Mac. For now I've been switching between Google's reader and now trying Yomu (https://www.yomu-reader.com/ https://www.yomu-reader.com/) but ideally I'd use something open source.