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Re: Zotero: The best notetaking / bookmarking hybrid you’re not using

Alistair — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:41:46 -0000

I have uninstalled zotero because originally used Jeteye, which stores all links you want to save in a self-organised structure, but only links. Then I found scrapbook which is much superior, and it also saves links/bookmarks. It appears Zotero saves complete pages by default and I found no method of saving collections of urls/bookmarks which to me is most useful as a designer/web programmer. Collections of full pages are wasted space to me, but also scrapbook does that as well. Also, I found scrapbook to be more attuned to my search requirements than zotero. So in my case, I find scrapbook far superior to zotero!

Re: Zotero: The best notetaking / bookmarking hybrid you’re not using

Mr. Gunn — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:50:13 -0000

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.

Re: Zotero: The best notetaking / bookmarking hybrid you’re not using

Nicholas Quixote — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:25:17 -0000

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.

Re: Zotero: The best notetaking / bookmarking hybrid you’re not using

mrshl — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:05:15 -0000

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.

Re: Zotero: The best notetaking / bookmarking hybrid you’re not using

c0wb0yz — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:30:34 -0000

Great blog, really!

What's the difference with Evernote ?

Re: Zotero: The best notetaking / bookmarking hybrid you’re not using

dpg — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:18:15 -0000

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).