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Citation Ascension (mander.xyz)
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[–] Ragdoll_X 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Recently I've actually been wondering how the hell researchers manage their citations for big projects, because a while back I started doing some research on the Cass Review, tripped on my own dick and accidentally ended up with 70-something disorganized citations (that I actually used) that were a pain in the ass to clean up.

I'm definitely checking out those first three software lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I made good experiences with Zotero. Works well with LaTeX, a browser-plugin allows to add papers directly and you can annotate downloaded PDFs. Only problem I had were the paper-metadata, which often needed some fixing. Also that you cannot host your own server is a slight disadvantage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

+1 for Zotero and Biblatex. You do need the "Better Bibtex"-Plugin though, or at least I highly recommend it.

"Zotfile" allows you to more or less automatically create a filesystem, so as long as you have a way to sync parts of your drive (or access a server) you can have working links to every paper in your library on any machine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Zotero 7 (the latest main version) broke compatibility with Zotfile, but there are plugins around that are either forks of the version that ran on Zotero 6 or reimplementations of Zotfile’s features.

I personally have been using Zotero Attanger and it’s been working great for me.

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