ZotFile Reviews and details

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• Zotfile: Organizing Cloud Storage File Structure

  Please see under features for more. Zotfile and a quick search gives you other options as well: https://libguides.libraries.wsu.edu/c.php?g=768677&p=5514204#s-lg-box-17429213. Source: 10 months ago

• Selfhosted research paper manager

  Not web based (not actually hosted), but an open source desktop client that can be used with a (self hosted) file sync method of choice using Zotfile (http://zotfile.com/). Source: 11 months ago

• Zotero or mendely for multiple devices?

  Check out zotfile for Zotero. It allows you to use any cloud to host your article. I use it with our university sponsored onedrive http://zotfile.com. Source: 11 months ago

• Researchers! What's your workflow for getting PDFs/research papers onto your Boox device?

  The Zotfile plugin is a thing too if you don't want to pay for Zotero storage. You can use its 'send to tablet' feature to automate some of the pushing and pulling between Zotero and an Android tablet and extract the annotations. Here is a guide. Source: 12 months ago

• Tools for APA format (especially references) that actually work?

  ZotFile is also an amazing PDF management add-on for Zotero. Source: about 1 year ago

• Quaderno + Zotero

  Yes, I use this kind of a setup. The main tool in my setup is the Zotfile extension to Zotero. I attach PDFs as file links to their entries in Zotero, and have configured Zotfile to keep everything organized by type of entry. (So all Books are in a single directory, all Journal Articles in another, etc.). Source: about 1 year ago

• Lumi2 for reading papers and taking notes

  Zotfile (zotfile.com) only extracts highlights and comments, not handwriting. Handwritten notes would be stored as an image in the PDF file. It would be impossible to determine that this is a "handwritten-note-image" and not just a image that is part of the original PDF file. However, the actual PDF file can be copied back, either overwriting original file or as a copy with a suffix added to the name. The website... Source: over 1 year ago

• LaTeX | Zotero | texstudio - anything else needed?

  +1 for Zotfile for zotero http://zotfile.com/ the most important feature for me is that you can extract annotations from the pdf and save them as notes alongside zotero entry! I used it to highlight important snippets in the pdf (using Okular / FoxitReader ) and then search through them in zotero. Full text search in zotero is another powerfully feature where you search among all your PDFs . Make sure you enable... Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: How do you organize or rename pdf files (books, papers, etc.)?

  Yes, it can be a tad clunky and the mobile app for a long time was just a catalog. However, their new iOS app [1] is awesome. The ability to read and highlight right in the app is what I have been wanting for years. I had previously been using the ZotFile [2] plugin to achieve something similar previously. ZotFile is also very powerful, I only used a subset of features. [1] https://www.zotero.org/support/ios [2]... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Zotero annotations and the Boyue Likebook P10

  Not sure if it would work on a Boyue, but look at the Zotfile extension to do 2 way sync with annotations: http://zotfile.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Zotero vs using the computer folders

  For (2), I think no. You can use Zotfile to move attachments into folders. You can use Zotero Folder Import to import all attachments in folders into your Zotero library. But I don't think you can effectively set Zotero to scan a folder and update its library when a new file is added. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Nieces of S. Korea's attorney general accused of plagiarizing six papers at American university

  Zotero also has plug-in support, meaning you can add the ZotFile plugin which can extract quotes from highlighted text. Got me through my MA degree. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Zotero 6

  I have a similar setup (Zotero + dropbox). Zotero syncs the entries and any notes, but dropbox takes care of the pdf storage. You can swap out dropbox for your storage of choice. I use zotfile (http://zotfile.com) to handle this. Files are all stored in a single folder (which can be in different locations depending on computer) which I point zotfile to. Inside that each paper is put into a folder based on author... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Give me your lit review secrets

  You can use Zotfile to store your Zotero library in a synced cloud directory (GDrive, Dropbox, etc), and store/sync unlimited files for free. Source: about 2 years ago

• Has anyone managed to extract correctly highlights from PDFs or Epubs?

  RCU must be used in-conjunction with another tool, like Zotero+Zotfile. Source: about 2 years ago

• Zotero- ree, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research

  I am a longtime user of Zotero and a paying subscriber too. I use Zotfile extension to manage PDF files in Zotero. The best feature of this extension is bulk renaming filenames using a predefined filename format such as authors-year-article name. Most academic papers pdf files have weird names such as "1-s2.0-S0007681321001221-main.pdf". Before Zotero and Zotfile I used to manually rename them. Then I found out... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Pdf reading application for research purposes

  So my workflow is similar to this. I read the paper and highlight the interesting parts. Then I use the zotfile plugin to extract the annotations and highlightes text from the pdf. In the next step I add the extracted text to my obisidian vaulr where I keep all the annotations from all the paper I have read. Source: over 2 years ago

• Does anyone knows how Zotero find and automatically download the relevant PDF files?

  The workflow you mention is correct; one way to save a step is to use the Zotfile plugin's "attach new file" feature to grab the most-recently-downloaded file from your downloads folder and attach it to a selected item. See download info and documentation at http://zotfile.com. Source: over 2 years ago

• PDF organization, general tips for keeping track of everything

  I use Zotero for capturing articles (i.e. Saving the PDF file and adding the corresponding BibTeX entry). I use the Better BibTeX plugin along with Zotfile. These plugins help me rename and move the downloaded PDFs into my library folder. I follow the AuthorYear naming scheme for the PDFs. Source: over 2 years ago

• How do you organize papers you find?

  Zotero with Better BibTex and ZotFile addons. In terms of organization, Zotero offers folders and tags. Source: over 2 years ago

• Recommend a simple note-taking app for research?

  The zotfile extension along with a PDF editor. I recommend Okular. Source: over 2 years ago