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Also, I created a short demo video on my website
http://sblsrv.org.aalto.fi/zotpad/
I will probably make a better video later on, but this should give you an idea of how the app works. One feature that I did not mention in the video is that you can send files to other applications using the action button in the reader mode.
David Ramírez
I started developing ZotPad as aun universal App, but eventually compiled it as an iPad app to make a release faster by avoiding tuning and testing the user interface on two devices. So you can expect an universal version soon.
As for webdav, it is not difficult to implement, but I do not have a webdav server to test with. If someone is interested in allowing testing with their server, please email me at zotpad@gmail.com.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zotpad/id497260579?ls=1&mt=8
It is great to be able to read the pdfs- that works well.
On the other hand, this app is missing two major parts of Zotero: browsing by collections within a library- and by tags- these are essential to making use of large Zotero libraries. Currently there is just a list of thousands of references that you can sort or search by author/year/title/publication.
I hope that collections and tags can be included in this app soon- I would need this before I could give a good rating for this app.
http://sblsrv.org.aalto.fi/zotpad/
If you cannot see the collections, please email zotpad@gmail.com and I can troubleshoot this.
The one thing I need the most is support for WebDAV storage. I saw it mentioned above and I'd like to know what the status is on that, since I decided to move to a WebDAV storage some time ago and thus it is pretty much essential for me. Unfortunately, I cannot arrange access to a WebDAV server, but you can set one up for testing purposes pretty easily in a virtual machine or even directly on your Mac. There are plenty of quick guides on how to do that, if I dig a little I may be able to find one I used.
netbuoy: iPhone will be supported in the next feature release. It takes a bit more coding to support two form factors, so I decided to go with one first to make a faster release.
I installed it it on my iPad and I want to share some impressions and sugesstions
- I think that the most important next feature you should make is adding/editing notes
- sometimes the application crashes how can I send you a report so you can make improvements
- you can make to go up in the libraries with swipe, and not only by tapping on the library button like the native email app in iPad
- add sync button so I can request manyally sync between the ipad and the server. Like in GoodReader
- add an option to download all the server content on my iPad. Now it doesn't download the pdf files automatically. Option like in GoodReader
I hope you will find my suggestions useful.
Keep kicking
I wonder if you might implement a "Last Modified" or "Recently Added" button along with the Author, Year, Title, and Publication buttons. I tend to want to work with the documents I've most recently added to Zotero, and it helps to have a handy way to get to them quickly.
Working with notes requires some more thought and will not be implemented in the 1.1 release. It would be simple to treat notes like attachments so that only one can be viewed at a time. However, I believe that a lot more useful way to do this would be to allow working with notes while viewing an attachment.
Manual sync button might be implemented at some point, but this is not a priority due to the way sync works. (You can read a more detailed description on the website of ZotPad once I have it published later today.) There is already an option to download everything. Check the App settings. Downloading everything had a bug affecting some users of 1.0, but this is fixed in 1.0.1, which is now in review by Apple.
marksample: I will add button for "Last modified" or some other way to sort by the fields you request. This will be in the next feature release.
Please submit all questions there rather than at this thread.
http://www.zotpad.com/node/14
Any comments would be welcome.
One further issue that may be considered for future feature updates, and in a way also dependent on the solution to the storage sync solution, is annotation round-trip - meaning, how to get annotated PDF files back into zotpad/zotero from iannotate/goodreader/PDF-expert and the like. This is probably the subject of future discussions (if at all), but one possible option would be to encode an ID into the file name or metadata and expose an "open in..." interface so that when done annotating users can easily reattach the annotated file back into the correct library entry in zotpad and sync it with zotero using their synchronization method of choice. Just an idea.
I responded there
http://www.zotpad.com/node/14#comment-1
Generally, I would like to hear opinion or votes on which file transfer methods are the most requested.
1 being able to read the PDF file I store on a webdav server (as opposed to those on the zotero server)
2 being able to sort select entries based on the date added or date modified.
Otherwise I like the app. Fortunately it did not crash on me (yet?)
Also, if you experience crashes or some other problems, please see the ZotPad site for how to report problems. I cannot fix a problem if I am not aware of if.
I am writing a bit longer response to this thread: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/10834/2/the-unavoidable-ipad-thread/