Comments on: Zotero: A Serious Online Research Tool

By: sapientia ex machina » Zotero: the best open-source app you’ve never heard of.

Sat, 17 May 2008 06:04:17 +0000

[...] has attracted some very positive attention. It’s funded by the Andrew W. Mellon and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations, and according [...]

By: bigidea » Blog Archive » NBC’s Social Learning, follow up

bigidea » Blog Archive » NBC’s Social Learning, follow up — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:21:58 +0000

[...] cards, or is specific to tag/topic. I found I was able to supplement iCue using Zotero, which is a great research tool, if often more horsepower than many workplace learners [...]

By: John Ahlstrom

John Ahlstrom — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:52:11 +0000

How do I get things from Thunderbird into Zotero?

By: Bob Walsh

Bob Walsh — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:00:17 +0000

Syahid – Not really: at the level of find/annotate/cite it’s very easy.

It does have some real depth: being able to drag anything on your PC/Mac into it and do the same things you would to a web page opens a lot of possibilities.

By: Syahid A.

Syahid A. — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:49:44 +0000

Zotero is awesome but it looks like it need some serious time to effectively use it.

By: Jeff Singfiel

Jeff Singfiel — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:35:21 +0000

I used Zotero while researching a family member’s medical condition and thought it was great. However, the next time I reinstalled Windows/Firefox, I realized too late that my neatly collected data was buried somewhere other than where I’d backed up. Lost it all.

I know, I know, it was my mistake, but I hope in this new version the location of the data store is more obvious.

By: Michael Caton

Michael Caton — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:15:38 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out, I’ve been looking for something like this since all the other non-social clipping tools (e.g. netsnippets) started disappearing.

Love the idea of a timeline feature, hopefully the data can be imported into PPT or Keynote.

By: Tim Haughton

Tim Haughton — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:47:00 +0000

Whilst certainly not free, Ergo (www.yourergo.com) provide enhanced search with annotation.

The timeline is an interesting idea. We plan to add ‘timemachine’ type functionality to Ergo, so you can see how your search results and clusters have changed over time. But a timeline is very interesting.