DISQUS

dpg · 1 year ago

Thanks! I've started considering Zotero, Ultra Recall, and Surfulater as a possible repository for all the documents, images, and notes stored in folders on my hard drive. This post was very helpful, as I've been wondering if Zotero was more for academic purposes than for general research & retrieval.

By the way, syncing data between computers has become trivial thanks to programs like Dropbox (https://www.getdropbox.com).

c0wb0yz · 1 year ago

Great blog, really!

What's the difference with Evernote ?

mrshl · 1 year ago

If you're asking why I don't use Evernote, it's mainly because I think Google Notebook, Zotero, and Delicious all handle text better than Evernote, and most of my notes are text based. I also think tagging could work better in Evernote. But perhaps one day I'll switch. As my posts indicate, I think Evernote is pretty impressive.

Nicholas Quixote · 10 months ago

Thanks for this review. It confirmed what I too had been thinking. I am a big fan of Diigo, but had realized shortcomings that it looks like Zotero fills: ability to categorize and format much more explicitly. I had looked at it before, and the biggest drawback was the lack of sync. Now that that is started, i really am seeing the read and write coming to the web.

Mr. Gunn · 7 months ago

I used Zotero for quite a while, but one thing it doesn't help with is if you've already got a whole bunch of PDFs you'd like to organize. Mendeley is a standalone app that will automatically organize your existing PDFs on your harddrive and sync them with your web account. Annotation sharing should be coming in about a month, too, so if you're interested in trying something else out, you may want to give it a shot.