resonance Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 If you're into research - and I know a bunch of people here are - Zotero is the awesomest citation manager ever, and the most exciting piece of software I've run into in a long time. It's a Firefox extension that captures citations from the webpage you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penny Century Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 zotero totally pooped out on me after a few months. no idea why. it's a nice concept, but something went buggy and it just stopped working and lost all my info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resonance Posted July 21, 2007 Author Share Posted July 21, 2007 Thanks for letting me know. I'll make frequent backups while I'm working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 I've used it but never got the feel for it. Check these out: http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Reference_manager http://www.bibsonomy.org/ http://www.citeulike.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of...gement_software http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resonance Posted July 21, 2007 Author Share Posted July 21, 2007 What did you find in other managers that made them work better for you than zotero? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jemini Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 I'm a fan of Diigo, which is also a Firefox extension. It lets you save any page and add highlighting to passages as well as comments and sticky notes, and it caches pages so if they move or disappear, you have a copy. You can share your notes and highlights, since storage is all online, or you can have private stuff. It's not perfect and doesn't do all the citation management stuff (that I've investigated), but it's pretty unobtrusive and easy to use, and is accessible from any computer which is cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 What did you find in other managers that made them work better for you than zotero? There seemed to be no easy way to integrate it with my existing bibtex database which therefore makes it useless in any writing environment where I'd use it. I've increasingly been using txt2tags for technical writing. It has a well supported emacs syntax highlighting plugin and the bibtex support in emacs is also phenomenal, as you would guess. My new favorite plugin, it's all text, allows for editing any web form textarea with any text editor, so I can easily edit even crazyboards posts with emacs or vim and insert citations keyed to my existing database . I haven't worked the kinks out of that yet. It's real handy on the backend of this thing where it want me to end css inside a textarea. The LyX wiki has more resources related to graphical bibtex managers. If you're not familiar with LyX btw, check it out. I ended up switching to Linux back in the late 90s just to use it for writing papers where I'd switch back and forth between symbolic notation and prose. It's written from the ground up for accedemic writing in the maths and sciences. http://www.lyx.org/ The scipy wiki has cool toys as well: http://www.scipy.org/Topical_Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatM Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 LyX looks cool. I might have to check it out. I've grown quite fond of Emacs now that I'm getting the hang of it. There's a learning curve, but the built in tutorial is pretty good. And I love the "psychiatrist". I spent a good 30 minutes the other night playing with that because I was completely bored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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