Greetings!

It was a good while back that I first started fiddling with Zotero and using it as little more than a Web scrapbook, and some time shortly thereafter (perhaps 18 months back) that I went through the process of migrating to it as a serious reference manager. Been quite happy with it, both in terms of its innovations and in pedestrian ways.

I migrated from the MacOS X reference manager Bookends, and while I've seen some conversation in the forums about that combination, switching over took a lot of thought and sorting through things. That was a while back, but I note that the version 10 upgrade of Bookends has if anything complicated the process. In the spirit of serial reciprocity, I've taken a bit of my summer to collect the pieces I used and insights into the migration process, and (since they're longer than a simple forum post) I've made them available here.

To the Zotero developers: let me know if there's anything misleading about this or that you'd prefer to see reworded...my intention is not to muddy the waters!

P.S. To those I was able to meet at GMU in April, thanks for a good visit!