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fcoulter · 06-15-2011, 04:29 PM

I hadn't realized that Reference Management Software could also maintain a library of the actual papers. I thought they all worked like the citation manager for Word; just a list of possible references. Thanks for the tip.

Now, of course, I need to go through all the software listed on the Wikipedia site to see if any of the other software might do a better (or even an as good) job as zotero. Half way through the list, and I found another possibility -- Qiqqa.

Zotero has (at first glance) one big plus and one small minus. The plus is that it will store PDF's in the cloud and sync between multiple computers. This means that when the inevitable happens, all of my references are still saved out there and I can work on multiple computers. The minus is that it requires Firefox. I've heard a few complaints about the latest version, as well as it's attempts to take over a computer during installation. (But then again, so does Microsoft Office and iTunes...)

At any rate, thanks for the tip.

06-15-2011, 04:29 PM	#3
fcoulter Enthusiast Posts: 26 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: Kindle	Reference Management Software I hadn't realized that Reference Management Software could also maintain a library of the actual papers. I thought they all worked like the citation manager for Word; just a list of possible references. Thanks for the tip. Now, of course, I need to go through all the software listed on the Wikipedia site to see if any of the other software might do a better (or even an as good) job as zotero. Half way through the list, and I found another possibility -- Qiqqa. Zotero has (at first glance) one big plus and one small minus. The plus is that it will store PDF's in the cloud and sync between multiple computers. This means that when the inevitable happens, all of my references are still saved out there and I can work on multiple computers. The minus is that it requires Firefox. I've heard a few complaints about the latest version, as well as it's attempts to take over a computer during installation. (But then again, so does Microsoft Office and iTunes...) At any rate, thanks for the tip.