Zotero basics and group syncing
- After playing with it for an hour or so: Zotero is freaking awesome
- Sync
- If you add an account (in Preferences), all groups you’re part of will be synced after you click the sync green thing top-left1
- even if you enabled “automatic sync” through Preferences
- If you add an account (in Preferences), all groups you’re part of will be synced after you click the sync green thing top-left1
- Adding/importing
- Adding by DOI (“Add items by identifier”) is wonderful
- Works for DOI, ISBN, arxiv ID, and other IDs I never heard of
- Bibtex “Import from clipboard” is magic for the items that don’t have a DOI/ISBN/… (incl. direct arxiv links!)
- You can even import multiple papers that way! Neat for copying other .bib files
- You can add links to files online, and attach local copies of files
- There’s also “Find available PDF”! Wow!
- Adding by DOI (“Add items by identifier”) is wonderful
- notes and highlights; PDF viewer
- If the item has a (file, not link) PDF, you can highlight inside it!
- text and rectangle, multiple colors
- they are synced
- can be seen and edited in the web version too!
- Item/file notes
- can contain citations (= links to other files)!
- that are clickable!
- can be created based on existing annotations (=highlights!)
- support templates2
- can contain citations (= links to other files)!
- (AWESOME) tutorial: New PDF Reader Available in Zotero 6 | Lane Library Blog
- PDF reader shortcuts: kb:keyboard shortcuts [Zotero Documentation] (incomplete) and PDF Reader shortcuts (default and missing Zotero-specific ones mentioned in the first link)
- If the item has a (file, not link) PDF, you can highlight inside it!
- Taxonomy
- Items have
- tags (auto-completed; really nice search interface)
- related items/files
- symmetrical relationship, being related works both ways
- Nested collections work as expected (~ nested categories, parent shows all items belonging to all it’s descendants)
- Advanced search exists and is about as expected
- good support for ALL THE METADATA FIELDS
- no support for regex :(
- you can save useful searches
- Items have
- Addons/Plugins
- Info and link to full list: Plug-ins and Integrations
- Zutilo3 is an addon for macros/shortcuts, found it when looking for a shortcut for “add items by identifier”
- “Lookup item by identifier”, now
<C-N>for me. - It’s awesome:
- “Lookup item by identifier”, now
- “Better Bibtex”4 allows exporting as bibtex
- including automatic export (used in 230507-1620 Zotero and Obsidian)
- and is EXTREMELY configurable5
- Zotero Robust Links for archiving links with Web Archive and friends
- Integrations
- Overleaf Zotero integration is a Premium Overleaf feature
- Other features
- “Timeline” is neat but not too useful right now:
- “Timeline” is neat but not too useful right now:
- Misc
- (Almost) all keyboard shortcuts (for PDF see above): kb:keyboard shortcuts [Zotero Documentation]
- TODO
zotero://links don’t work for me, and the default .desktop file they provide seems broken - TODO later
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