I am facing the issue that my lovely tool “Papers”, which I use for managing scientific resources is only available for macOS and iOS and I am gradually switching to Linux for work; I need to be able to work on both. The key features I definitely love are (and am used to): “matching” (I can impor…

Thanks, I’ll have a look! I don’t mind to pay, as long as I am not depending on some kind of proprietary library structure which is more or less useless when I decide to switch again :wink:

An experienced colleague of mine uses and recommends http://www.jabref.org/ I thought the install req’s where too heavy for my system but it seemed useful to organize at the level of the bibtex its self. I use Zotero since it saves a copy of the paper its self and syncs them across devices, but I s…

They’ve got really nice bibtex import and export - I think they’re using an open standard for PDF annotation too, but I haven’t looked into that deeply.

Another vote for Zotero here! I also find the Zotero Better BibTex extension indispensable: https://zotplus.github.io/better-bibtex/index.html

zotero. I’ve never had problems running it on arch. If you use vim I wrote a zotero/bibtex integration https://github.com/rafaqz/citation.vim . It reads your zotero database so you can insert citations and open pdfs/urls directly from vim. (it also integrates with better-bibtex citation keys)

:+1: for zotero. I also use the “Better BibTex for Zotero” plugin.

I use Zotero with PaperShip on IOS to view saved articles on my phone.

I save the pdfs in a folder and when I need the bibtex reference I grab it from Google Scholar… maybe I should check out Zotero haha

I used to use Mendeley, tried switching to Zotero because Elsevier. Look and feel seem much more native than with Mendeley, but other than that it’s been kind of a mess. Trying to import things left me with this weird hierarchy, with papers attached to the wrong citation. And the single feature I u…

[image] cscherrer: full text search, doesn’t seem to work at all For what it’s worth, I use Zotero and haven’t had problems with full-text search.

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chakravala September 4, 2019, 6:59pm 25

I no longer digitally organize papers, I have a laser printer and print out whatever I find important. In the past I experimented with Jabref and other tools, but none of them satisfy me. Someday I want to make my own tool based on VerTeX.jl for references, as I discussed before

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