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1 we want to use Zotero to organize research projects, not only organize pdf documents/references
2 so, we hope that it can manage manuscripts, experimental data and so on.
2 so, we hope that it can manage manuscripts, experimental data and so on.
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Personally I organize my references in one directory each (named AuthorYYYY) and then include files (PDFs, scanned images, etc.), notes (TXT, etc.), saved webpages (e.g., publishers website). Easy enough, but not linked directly to my library.
Edit: actually, adamsmith's suggestion seems even better than this! Check that out.
2. You can add manuscripts and other archive types as entries, and they are currently adding more types for the next release (I think there's some discussion of data sets for that?). See the sticky thread at the top of the forum. But I don't think Zotero could actually support editing documents or anything like that. (If (1) were solved by linking to directories, that would be helpful though.)
2 OSF = Open Science Framework