Upgrade StorageZotero is awesome
I hope this doesn't get buried and that the awesome people working on Zotero see this, but I just wanted to say Zotero is really awesome and has me wowed.
I'd been using Mendeley desktop for about 2 years but it had a number of annoying and confusing limitations. I got incredibly frustrated by things like Mendeley syncing from web storage and overwriting a bunch of PDFs I annotated; the Mendeley web button clipping only to my online Mendeley account, not to the desktop; and some inexplicable bug where it would keep deselecting textboxes when I was trying to add title and author info.
I switched to Zotero a few weeks ago and I am wowed. Everything that was opaque and frustrating about Mendeley is clear, simple, and documented in Zotero. I can get it set up just the way I like it to work with my existing file structure and workflow. And the Save to Zotero button on Chrome just works, and works even without syncing Zotero to a web account. Zotero has all the features I could possibly want from even a paid product like EndNote, but it's open source!
Thank you, Zotero devs and testers, for all your hard work. It's making my life so much easier writing term papers and my thesis, and I am pitching Zotero hardcore to all my friends and colleagues.
I'd been using Mendeley desktop for about 2 years but it had a number of annoying and confusing limitations. I got incredibly frustrated by things like Mendeley syncing from web storage and overwriting a bunch of PDFs I annotated; the Mendeley web button clipping only to my online Mendeley account, not to the desktop; and some inexplicable bug where it would keep deselecting textboxes when I was trying to add title and author info.
I switched to Zotero a few weeks ago and I am wowed. Everything that was opaque and frustrating about Mendeley is clear, simple, and documented in Zotero. I can get it set up just the way I like it to work with my existing file structure and workflow. And the Save to Zotero button on Chrome just works, and works even without syncing Zotero to a web account. Zotero has all the features I could possibly want from even a paid product like EndNote, but it's open source!
Thank you, Zotero devs and testers, for all your hard work. It's making my life so much easier writing term papers and my thesis, and I am pitching Zotero hardcore to all my friends and colleagues.
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DWL-SDCAZotero itself and this support forum are so great that I sometimes have a difficult time convincing people to install it. They tend to suspect that I'm exaggerating. I've actually had people later return and shake my hand or hug me for forcefully telling them about Zotero.
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jakeoungI like the feature of adding multiple DOI urls at once.
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Javier AvalosI fully agree with new2zot. I started some years ago with Mendeley and I was not very happy with some features (e.g., the awful display of search results). Long ago I looked for alternatives and I met Zotero. Either Zotero 4 (currently running in my MacBook) or the beta Zotero 5 (running in my desk Imac, without problems) are quite trustable and powerful reference managers and I tell about my positive experience everybody around in my department. I wish it becomes increasingly used.