What can I replace it with?
Let’s see… In the meantime, I got Milanote and now Obsidian. I hear Joplin is good too, but I haven’t used it yet. To be honest, Obsidian is so far a godsend for me.
Any other suggestions or should I just stick with what I have for now?
Yeah, I use Pocket but mostly Raindrop.io. And yes, I meant Excalidraw.
Also, I’ll use the syncthing-fork app over the official one, as you recommended. Let’s see… Dataview and Homepage are being put on my list as well.
I read PDFs digitally, yes, but I have the Reader app for that and I’m not sure I want to replace it. I can already annotate and note-take with that as well. What else can Zotero do?
If you have something you like, keep using it.
Zotero is a reference manager intended for academics. So it works very well with academic papers (and books too). It pulls all the metadata you need, and is very easy to use to get citations/bibliographies in whatever style you need. The webplugin for it is great, it will download the paper, add to the software, and properly add the metadata needed. It can also redirect you to your institutions proxy server to get access to journals (which isn’t of much use if you don’t have institutional access though).
I also have rss feeds to journals I keep an eye on, and I can download the actual paper from inside the software.
My workflow with zotero goes something like this:
Find paper in journal, download into zotero and categorize via firefox extension, read and annotate paper, import annotations with citations and links etc… into obsidian so I can reference in notes, etc…
I also use pandoc in obsidian to automatically pull references from my entire zotero library, so if I want to cite a paper I type, for example, @marxCapital… it then autofills what I am looking for, and adds proper citation in the sidebar in the style I need.
I use Feedly for my RSS feed, but that’s expensive.
Also, I’m saving this comment. Thanks again! Let’s see… Pandoc and possibly Zotero for more academic stuff. Gotcha.
Frankly, I’m spending too much on money and Feedly is expensive.
You may like “Feeder” is a foss app available via f-droid. You can import all your feeds as an OPML file. Doesn’t sync like feedly does though. I find it a bit criminal how much people try to charge for rss apps.
I only use Zotero’s rss for journals, its not a great rss app.
Np! The feature I use pandoc for used to be in the actual zotero obsidian plugin, but they took it out because it was a bit buggy ig.
Oof. That last part sucks, but perhaps I’ll use Pandoc myself someday.
And yeah, it’s criminal how much people charge for RSS feed apps.
Feedly is better than Feeder, but maybe the expense just isn’t cutting it and worth it all the same.
To be clear, there are two different apps called Feeder, a paid one like feedly, and a Foss one available on fdroid. Confusing, I know.
Ah, fair.
Actually, how would you compare the Reader app with Zotero?
Here it is:
https://read.readwise.io/
https://readwise.io/
The two are related to each other.
It looks prettier, but from a quick google search I can see it isn’t as good for managing large quantities of academic papers. I’ve never used it though, so idk
Yeah, it doesn’t seem to be able to do the same things your Zotero can do…