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Sorry for the delay in getting back here. It was failing on everything, but I've had a platform/machine change and at least one zotero update since posting, and am no longer experiencing any failures. So all's OK now, thanks.
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As I've noted before, there's a case to be made for making it possible for end-users to knit other tools into zotero, rather than have zotero try and do everything itself. As the number of desired functions increases, it will be impossible for the z…
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Unfortunately the file-association story in Ubuntu (as far as I understand it, which is not that far) is a bit of a mess, with several overlapping systems. The forums have threads going on for weeks about things as simple as getting vim to replace g…
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On my machine (ubuntu 8.04, FF3RC1, zotero 1.04), Zotero opens pdf files using one particular pdf viewer (evince), whatever I do. extensions.zotero.launchNonNativeFile is set to false. FF preferences are set to open pdfs in acroread (external, not…
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Typical user that I am, I just tried the deletions without reading the troubleshooting page, and that did the trick. Thanks.
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This is a Firefox rather than a zotero question, but in case anyone knows offhand: I've been unable to go from 3.0b5 to RC1 while retaining my ff profile. When RC1 starts up, it asks me to restart ff to enable zotero, but when I click restart (or cl…
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Yes, I meant putting extra items in item subdirectories: specifically, a Xournal metadata file per pdf. Thanks.
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All good here too now. Thanks.
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I have the same thing, in my case having had Zotero 1.0.4 installed in a profile being used with Firefox 3.0b5, once I ran FF 3.0 rc1 with the same profile, Zotero 1.0.4 failed the compatability check. I get the same failure of the incompatabilit…
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mdekrujif: I use hierarchical collections for temporary tactical organisation of items, ie. for me they're just containers as opposed to tags which I generally think of as strategic and permanent attributes of the items. Thinking of collections as…
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Is there a case here for importing a tad of the UNIX philosophy of having small tools operate together, rather than building everything in? I'm just thinking that Bibtool does such an efficient and fast job of editing/converting BibTeX, that repla…
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Well, for what it's worth, Firefox 3 should actually be a substantial improvement over Firefox 2 in terms of performance and memory usage. Hmm, we'll see. So far I've found Firefox 3 significantly faster on javascript-heavy sites (great for gmail …
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Right, I'll look forward to trying it out. From the perspective of FF as an application platform, it's unfortunate that it's getting so big. It's really at the point now where it's not that suitable for low-end systems. I've been using epiphany an…
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I find the slowness of Zotero a problem too. I had been holding out for the FF3 version. But now Ubuntu 8.04 has moved me onto FF3 beta, and I've installed the zotero dev build, I'm a little disappointed. Searching is faster, but adding new items …
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Marvellous, thank you.
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Is this being considered? I use Zotero mostly on linux. Now and again though I have a zotero session in OS X or XP, and going back to linux it feels a bit disadvantaged ...
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If anyone still wants more key export flexibility than Zotero offers, I can recommend bibtool. I run it as a quick post-process after the zotero->bibtex export. It can autogenerate keys very flexibly, sort, clean up output in various ways, etc.
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Dan: from my pov a more ramified system would be better for generating recommendations (if only because a digg-style setup sets such a low bar, being of no worth at all). The only kind of recommendations I'd be interested in would come from a *wei…
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Thanks noksagt -- I'll have another look around with your suggestions in mind.
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noksagt: this is a bit off-topic for Zotero, but as we're already there: a year or so ago I tried every pdf annotator I could find for linux, and found none of them much use for my purposes. They all had drawbacks such as: only making annotations as…
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jmdelane: right, I see. That's not the way I work, so it didn't occur to me. Another problem with the plugin for me is that I find it *much* slower to search for text in PDFs than the standalone acroread. I'm a full-time Ubuntu user and also find …
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jmdelane: The inability to view PDFs within Firefox in essence shoots Zotero's designed workflow to pieces As a bit of an aside, why do you say this? I've always insisted on FF using an external reader to open pdfs, as using a pdf reader plugin ju…
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Apologies for the redundancy -- Bruce slipped in before me and made essentially the same points.
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The fundamental problem with not having a rating system is that there's not really another good metric for identifying the references that users have in their Zotero libraries but don't actually like or find useful. I'm a tad dubious about dealing…
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I can't imagine any sensible use for a rating system at all. I'm interested in what people have to say about items, but not remotely in how someone (even me) 'rates' items along some fake measurement scale (if we had a list of Wittgenstein's top 10 …
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I followed a link from It's All Text developer's site, and noticed that there's an API available to help make use of IAT from within other extensions. I imagine this would make the task easier?
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OK, I've asked the same question of the It's All Text developer. You never know.
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I don't know anything about how firefox extensions work and interact, but I'm wondering if an extension like It's All Text could be extended to work in other extensions' text inputs (at the moment it works on TEXTAREAs). If so, I could ask the deve…
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I'd like this too. Something analogous to the It's All Text! firefox extension, along with an 'official' endorsement of a temporary markup syntax (see this thread) would keep me, and perhaps some others, much happier until Zotero notes are beefed …
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OK, thanks Dan. Impossible or not, it did happen (I have a distinct absence of several hours worth of painstakingly thought-out notes to prove it!). Perhaps some freak thing as you say in the filesystem or FF storage. I'm going to keep an eye out o…