Where my Zotero time goes
For me, Zotero is a time-saver. I care only about how much time it saves in the process of exploring the literature, annotating and storing it, sharing it with others, and referencing it in articles.
Further to the post at http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/308/: It happened: I accidentally or otherwise regrettably deleted one or more items, which I must now manually re-add. This inevitable incident propelled "re-creating accidentally or otherwise regrettably deleted items" to a prominent place on the "Total time spent in Zotero doing tasks that are, in principle, automatable or avoidable" leaderboard, compiled for fun below.
The Total time spent in Zotero doing tasks that are, in principle, automatable or avoidable leaderboard
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~2 minutes per day: Renaming non-standard journal titles, author names, fully-capitalised article titles, etc., so that the Zotero library, when exported to BibTeX, is useful in preparing papers for publication. See http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/516/standardising-journal-names/.
~25 minutes total: Re-creating accidentally or otherwise regrettably deleted items.
~2 minutes per day: Locating and manually attaching and renaming full text PDFs for articles.
~20 seconds per day: Quickly clicking that [-] button many times to remove automatically added tags from articles scraped from ISI Web of Science.
~10 minutes total: Compiling this leaderboard. Oops.
Further to the post at http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/308/: It happened: I accidentally or otherwise regrettably deleted one or more items, which I must now manually re-add. This inevitable incident propelled "re-creating accidentally or otherwise regrettably deleted items" to a prominent place on the "Total time spent in Zotero doing tasks that are, in principle, automatable or avoidable" leaderboard, compiled for fun below.
The Total time spent in Zotero doing tasks that are, in principle, automatable or avoidable leaderboard
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~2 minutes per day: Renaming non-standard journal titles, author names, fully-capitalised article titles, etc., so that the Zotero library, when exported to BibTeX, is useful in preparing papers for publication. See http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/516/standardising-journal-names/.
~25 minutes total: Re-creating accidentally or otherwise regrettably deleted items.
~2 minutes per day: Locating and manually attaching and renaming full text PDFs for articles.
~20 seconds per day: Quickly clicking that [-] button many times to remove automatically added tags from articles scraped from ISI Web of Science.
~10 minutes total: Compiling this leaderboard. Oops.
at the moment, switching from endnote is not an option but i like the idea of zotero and i hope it will improve in future.