Question: Are import translators in the plans? An extended version of the BookMarklet? Or will this be a much more closely integrated iPad / desktop and improved Zotero/PaperShip-like system?
Firstly, I too am excited to get started with the ipad beta. Thanks for making that happen. However, like @internationaled the first thing I was looking for was how to get at my files via webdav. It's hard to test the functionality (except as a toy ) without that, since any new files I find and load on the ipad, I have to somehow find again and load on my desktop (and reading ... finding .. .reading ... finding ... is what I wnt to do on my ipad).
That'd be ok for now, except there's no easy way of finding "all the things I've added today, or yesterday" ... it'd be nice to be able to have a smart search option like the recent one , which is always "today" and/or "yesterday" ... I haven't worked out how to do that cleanly (obviously I can manually enter the date, but it's my guilty secret that I never know today's date).
All that said, I'll be playing with it over the next few days.
Thank you and great job to the dev team! Just started testing the beta. One feature I think is missing is the ability to save content in one of the iOS browsers and add it as an item in the Zotero app (i.e. Zotero Connector).
I signed up as a beta tester and received an email from "TestFlight" with a no-reply Apple email address. Is this the real deal / is it safe to click through?
I can't annotate PDFs in a group library. I'm not the owner, BTW, but the owner would be very happy we can all annotate.
I'm also affected by the no-webdav issue. I'd love to support Zotero by subscribing, but I use it for work so I'd like to pay from my grant. As strange as it might seem, I'm not allowed to contract online storage. I contacted storage@zotero.org in case you can charge me for the software. It's all about the billing.
Is the iOS version also open source. If so, are you accepting contributors?
Looks and works pretty well so far. I have a big library and the sync was reasonably quick. I can’t access PDFs yet, but that may be a function of how my own library syncing is set up.
So glad to have this and to participate in the beta.
Thank you very much for the great work you are doing with such app. I'll wait for the WebDAV support for having the possibility to fully test the app (I have all the papers there).
I was checking Zotero’s iOS beta app on my iPad for the last 30 min., and overall it’s really well made, clean, user-friendly and it takes full advantage of iOS touch screen potentiality. So it is certainly worth the wait, it already seems quite stable even at this early stage, so thanks a lot for your great work. I have some early observations to share:
1. I am saving my attachements through a WebDav connected to my university’s account, and it seems that WebDav is not yet supported in the app (only Zotero storage), so unfortunately I was unable to check the new built-in pdf reader and its note-taking functionality.
2. I was unable to find the option to relate documents together inside the app, is this option available somewhere, or not yet?
3. Zotero’s sharing icon in safari is really great and does the job perfectly (this alone is a gift), I would only love to be able to rename the title and to add tags (edit: directly from the connector).
I will keep using the app, and I might come back with more detailed feedback about my experience.
Thanks for the beta invitation! Overall it is pretty good (better than papership I think), but I would like to make some suggestions if possible:
1. The current PDF view settings are set by default and there isn't an option to change that. I personally like (light + vertical + continuous scrolling) and I would like to permanently change to that in the settings if possible.
2. I wonder if it is also possible to include PDF annotations available (free writing on the margin etc)?
Again, thanks for developing the official iOS app and I like it a lot!!
I just tested the iOS app but it looks like none of the PDFs can be opened. So I can not check if annotations made on the new beta desktop add actually appear. I wonder if there are some access options that need to get activated.
One other issues is (which I reported via the crash report, though not sure if that reaches you correctly) that when a shared group is removed (via webinterface) then the iOS app asks if you want to keep a local copy or remove it. Choosing "remove" makes the iOS crash immediatly. Only option to keep using it is to select "keep".
Yes, silly me. I forgot that my PDFs get synced via webdav. The group items are on Zotero but I understand that is neither supported yet. I'll just wait for a new version to test it once it is supported then :-)
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Is there support for linked files (like dropbox and zotfile) planned in the future development? Even after initial public release ?
EDIT:It seems you will be flooded with such questions now (I saw this post after I commented here)
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/88302/feature-request-ios-zotero-beta-workflow-for-pdfs-on-cloud-storage-and-linked-via-zotfile#latest
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/86325/linked-files-on-the-upcoming-zotero-for-ipad#latest
That'd be ok for now, except there's no easy way of finding "all the things I've added today, or yesterday" ... it'd be nice to be able to have a smart search option like the recent one , which is always "today" and/or "yesterday" ... I haven't worked out how to do that cleanly (obviously I can manually enter the date, but it's my guilty secret that I never know today's date).
All that said, I'll be playing with it over the next few days.
@eralzlogo Thanks. Sometimes the obvious things are not obvious.
I'm also affected by the no-webdav issue. I'd love to support Zotero by subscribing, but I use it for work so I'd like to pay from my grant. As strange as it might seem, I'm not allowed to contract online storage. I contacted storage@zotero.org in case you can charge me for the software. It's all about the billing.
Looks and works pretty well so far. I have a big library and the sync was reasonably quick. I can’t access PDFs yet, but that may be a function of how my own library syncing is set up.
So glad to have this and to participate in the beta.
I'll wait for the WebDAV support for having the possibility to fully test the app (I have all the papers there).
Thanks again
1. I am saving my attachements through a WebDav connected to my university’s account, and it seems that WebDav is not yet supported in the app (only Zotero storage), so unfortunately I was unable to check the new built-in pdf reader and its note-taking functionality.
2. I was unable to find the option to relate documents together inside the app, is this option available somewhere, or not yet?
3. Zotero’s sharing icon in safari is really great and does the job perfectly (this alone is a gift), I would only love to be able to rename the title and to add tags (edit: directly from the connector).
I will keep using the app, and I might come back with more detailed feedback about my experience.
1. The current PDF view settings are set by default and there isn't an option to change that. I personally like (light + vertical + continuous scrolling) and I would like to permanently change to that in the settings if possible.
2. I wonder if it is also possible to include PDF annotations available (free writing on the margin etc)?
Again, thanks for developing the official iOS app and I like it a lot!!
@mark-fangzhou-xie: We'll fix that. To be clear, it already supports highlight, note, and image annotations (currently available in My Library only). Inking is not currently supported.
1) Thank you!
2) WebDav please!
One other issues is (which I reported via the crash report, though not sure if that reaches you correctly) that when a shared group is removed (via webinterface) then the iOS app asks if you want to keep a local copy or remove it. Choosing "remove" makes the iOS crash immediatly. Only option to keep using it is to select "keep".