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Re:Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, ci... by patrickg_zill on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:36AM (#17607503)
Does it only store the metadata or does it have the power to store the full text, whether pdf or website or other document?

Could you use this like a digital "commonplace book"?

Re:Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, ci... by antiuniverse on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:51AM (#17607563)
It allows you to upload PDF or website snapshots, and by default an account is granted 300 MB free storage. They also have paid upgrades:

2 GB: $20/yr 6 GB: $60/yr Unlimited: $120/yr

I've had the paid 2 GB plan for a while, I've got about 800 MB stored with them, and I've been very happy with the service.

Between the Firefox connector, the automated PDF OCR metadata lookup, and the ability to pull in metadata from DOIs, Zotero makes indexing things insanely easy. It's like MusicBrainz for articles. I'm always surprised how many obscure PDFs it correctly recognizes and indexes for me.

Re:Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, ci... by lou1306 on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @06:33AM (#17608211)
Personally, I just sync metadata and use my institutional Google Cloud storage for PDFs. A little more convoluted (I think this wouldn't work without the ZotFile plugin) but it appears to work across my 2 devices.
Re:Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, ci... by Schiphol on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:49AM (#17607552)
You can store pdfs and other article files, and sync them across devices. The first 300MB are free, and there are 2GB, 6GB, and unlimited-storage paying tiers.
Re:Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, ci... by beeuys on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:54AM (#17607579)
Actually you can couple it to any WebDAV compatible cloud system. You can connect it to your own Nextcloud instance and have the limitations be your hardware.
Re:Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, ci... by brailsafe on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:50AM (#17607557)
You can also just set up a WebDAV server and sync that across devices. Works pretty damn well.
Re:Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, ci... by Schiphol on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:55AM (#17607582)
Huh, that's interesting! Do you know of a blog post where this is spelled out?
Re:Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, ci... by phireal on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @04:20AM (#17607680)
I use my Nextcloud install (since it provides a WebDAV interface).

In the options under the Sync tab, I select WebDAV as the File Syncing type and for the URL I put:

    my.nextcloud.server.com/remote.php/webdav
with the appropriate credentials.

Works flawlessly.

Re:Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, ci... by Schiphol on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:23AM (#17607942)
Thanks a lot :)
Re:Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, ci... by black_puppydog on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @04:55AM (#17607831)
I set it up to sync the full-texts via syncthing, has been working flawlessly.