Re:Digital Tools I Wish Existed
by lbotos on Friday November 27, 2020 @01:29PM
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Not OP, I considered zotero, but for me, I used mobile too much and it seemed that it was a bit of the "wild west". I settled on Joplin which has a mobile app and has been great for me over the past 6 months. I'm working on a FF <-> Joplin bookmarks mirroring browser extension, which would get all of my bookmarks into Joplin as a SSOT.
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Good point. I don't use it on mobile (I sync things between my personal and professional computer mostly) so I can't comment much on this aspect.
Joplin seems very nice indeed! But it seems to be more oriented for personal notes no? I mostly use Zotero for archiving webpages and various digital media (Zotero allows e.g. to embedded an epub as an item, or to add a link to a file stored locally).
Joplin has a bookmarklet that lets you screenshot or copy html if you want webpages: https://joplinapp.org/clipper/ I haven't gotten too deep into the "media" aspects -- but it's been great to act as a "digital note hub" that encompasses writing, research, and tagging.
Re:Digital Tools I Wish Existed
by FlashBlaze on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:38AM
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Have you given Zettlr https://www.zettlr.com/ a try?
Yes a Zotero app for mobile is something unfortunately missing. Ot doesnt seem too hard to talk to their API though.
Re:Digital Tools I Wish Existed
by newfromblammo on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:52PM
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There has been a Zotero mobile app in the worka for awhile. The API is brilliant, if you’re an iOS user you can use Shortcuts to build with it.
Papership exists for iOS. It's not perfect, but it is good enough. I principally use it to search through the tree structure of documents, and then open them with other apps.
I discovered today "Zoo for Zotero", an android app that is Free. Seems to work well.
Re:Digital Tools I Wish Existed
by mStreamTeam on Friday November 27, 2020 @01:36PM
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I'd like to agree and say joplin is great. I use synching to make sure my jolin notes are automatically synced between my phone, home computer, and work laptop
Curious why you don’t use the sync that ships with Joplin?
Joplin does not offer any original synchronization system. It just offers NextCloud, Dropbox, Onedrive, Webdav or the local filesystem. If you don't use any of those services, or you do not have a server where to setup Webdav, Local filesystem + Syncthing seems like the best choice.