Zotero goes mobile and no one notices?

adamsmith

Taking advantage of Zotero's improved API, several community devs have turned Zotero into mobile-suitable software, especially for Android tablets/smartphones.

There is Joscha's Zotfile Reader:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/18737/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zotfile-reader/

There is Avram's (ajlyon) new Android App Zandy:
http://groups.google.com/group/zotero-dev/browse_frm/thread/1bbe5df0dec96cc0
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gimranov.zandy.client

And jmschank's barcode scanner:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/19708/barcode-scanner-for-zotero-android-application/
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.ale.scanner.zotero

First, I wanted to put this out here for people to see. Second, I wanted to suggest that this gets promoted some - if there are no objections I would send an e-mail to the evangelist listserv, but also I'd really wish the Zotero Blog could cover this. Could Sean maybe say if/how that would be possible. Beyond making the existence of these apps known to the wider Zotero community, I think it's also clear that it's in the long-run interest of Zotero that these types of endeavors are successful.

edit: I see that it's been blogged in French already: http://zotero.hypotheses.org/381

sean

We'll blog about them very soon, but first we wanted to test them (and also provide feedback if there are bugs). I agree that these are exciting developments!

Bionatsci

These mobile options (not all of which I knew about - highlighting the benefits of adamsmith's suggestion) are indeed fantastic. In fact I was waiting for something like this before I went out and bought a tablet. Now I am at last within sight of never having to print out (and inevitably lose/misfile) a paper again! Well done to all those who contributed.

Joscha

I am integrating zotfile and zotfile reader right now and also make the preference pane much cleaner so that it should be easier to use and set up... I think that should easy a wider adoption...

ps: Here is the first version:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/18737/2/zotfile-reader-zotero-plugin-to-work-with-tablet-ipad-android-tablets-etc/#Comment_103873

ajlyon

iPhone and iPad users should take a look at BibUp, which takes a different approach to the problem, but also allows attaching snapshots of actual documents: http://elearning.unifr.ch/bibup/tuto/index.php

This is the kind of thing I hope to see happen when the API allows file uploads-- and it's exciting to see someone find away that limitation to make phones into Zotero document scanners today.

sean

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