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Zotero is very good nowadays. Its unbearably slow though, and it doesn't seem this will ever get better.
by majkinetor 9mo ago
Zotero is very good nowadays. Its unbearably slow though, and it doesn't seem this will ever get better.
- mft_ 9mo agoCould you share how/when it is slow? We’re considering using this at work and I’d love your feedback.
- austinjp 9mo agoNot OP and this is mere anecdata, but on a modest several-years-old ThinkPad, Zotero was slow when my single collection started pushing over 1,000 papers, most of which had PDFs attached. Starting up would take many seconds (half a minute?) and heavy operations such as bulk-renaming would take minutes. But for day-to-day use (adding references to my collection via a browser plugin) it was fine. Personally, I used auto-export for all additional functionality. So, I didn't use any Word (LibreOffice) plugins that hooked into Zotero or whatever. I'd just consume a giant .bib file as and when necessary. On modern hardware Zotero is probably fine. And it's reasonably flexible. A suggestion: export/import a big refs file (plus PDF attachments) and see if it can handle your daily workload. I suspect it will.