Upgrade StorageLeveraging Free Central Storage Through Google Docs Data API
As a long time Procite user, I just love Zotero and the clean way it lives in the browser as well as inside Open Office – so much better and easier than Procite! But as an itinerant wanderer from one PC to another, I hate having to try and remember which SQLite database has the most current copy of my references, and putting it all on a USB stick would seem to be inviting disaster, as least for me.
While the perfect solution someday might be some kind of Internet disk storage, I was using a new extension that uploads and downloads documents to Google docs at the click of an up and down arrow. It makes a neat way to push the 'master' the web for retrieval from wherever I may next be. And Google docs data API is really simple for python dudes to sue, I think – as well as free storage up to at least 1MB.
It would seem that the same sort of thing could be build for the SQLite system of Zotero. Initial implementation would likely be crude, just a slice and storage on the binary data perhaps, but it would allow the keeping of all the 'master' image info on the web, and would only require an upload click at then end of a session. Also would be kind of handy for making backups, and make the whole SQLite thing operate in an OS independent fashion, at least to some extent, since the current SQLite 3 binary format is fully cross platform. And no complex sync scripts to write, at least in the single user mindset.
Long term there would be a better way to leverage the web, but this might be a quick way to begin.
While the perfect solution someday might be some kind of Internet disk storage, I was using a new extension that uploads and downloads documents to Google docs at the click of an up and down arrow. It makes a neat way to push the 'master' the web for retrieval from wherever I may next be. And Google docs data API is really simple for python dudes to sue, I think – as well as free storage up to at least 1MB.
It would seem that the same sort of thing could be build for the SQLite system of Zotero. Initial implementation would likely be crude, just a slice and storage on the binary data perhaps, but it would allow the keeping of all the 'master' image info on the web, and would only require an upload click at then end of a session. Also would be kind of handy for making backups, and make the whole SQLite thing operate in an OS independent fashion, at least to some extent, since the current SQLite 3 binary format is fully cross platform. And no complex sync scripts to write, at least in the single user mindset.
Long term there would be a better way to leverage the web, but this might be a quick way to begin.
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TjowensSyncing individual collections is one of the next steps on Zotero's roadmap. You should be able to do this in June. See http://www.zotero.org/documentation/development_roadmap for more information