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You might think a lot of things, but your description of Zotero is completely inaccurate. Zotero isn't a browser-based application, and it can do everything you
by stakats 14y ago
You might think a lot of things, but your description of Zotero is completely inaccurate. Zotero isn't a browser-based application, and it can do everything you describe.
- SkyMarshal 14y agoYou're new here so pro-tip: More concrete details, less snark, or you're gonna downvoted to oblivion. Instead of just telling someone they're wrong, explain why. How is Zotero not a browser-based application, and how does it do everything OP described?
- stakats 14y agoSure! Zotero has been available as a standalone application for several years (and even when it only ran within Firefox in the early days, it was still a local application): http://www.zotero.org/download/ http://www.zotero.org/download/ Zotero retrieves PDF metadata using a Google Scholar lookup, a method that Mendeley later adopted: http://www.zotero.org/support/retrieve_pdf_metadata http://www.zotero.org/support/retrieve_pdf_metadata This process can also be applied to a watch folder using the third-party add-on ZotFile (Zotero supports extensions): http://www.columbia.edu/~jpl2136/zotfile.html http://www.columbia.edu/~jpl2136/zotfile.html Zotero has always allowed all kinds of searching of metadata and content: http://www.zotero.org/support/searching http://www.zotero.org/support/searching Zotero also includes notes (and these notes can be pulled from PDF annotations using ZotFile): http://www.zotero.org/support/notes http://www.zotero.org/support/notes
- freshhawk 14y agoNo need to be a dick, anyone reading Zotero's homepage comes away with the message that this is a browser-based application only. There is no mention anywhere of any other way of using it except on the download page. The first time I went there I didn't click on the download button because I didn't want a browser-based app.