Tuesday 23 February 2016

Everthing from Evernote to Zotero


Thing 17 is Evernote and Zotero.
Playing with Evernote to scan a business card - which worked except it chose to ignore the 'Wimmera Regional Library' bit and came up with the company name 'Corporation', liked that it would then add those card details to your contact list - easy! (the Evernote Team do seem to pester my email with with 'must have' tips)
I wasn't familiar with Zotero - open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research material. It can do your citations and bibliographies (think Endnote), organise your files:PDFs, webpages, images, into a searchable tree interface (think iTunes playlists), and syncs your data to your other devices (think Google.docs).
Even though both products have mobile apps, some of their capabilities are really only suited to a pc web browser - I'd like the Evernote web clipper to work on the phone or ipad and easily save text, links and images I come across.
Checked out Zotfile the advanced PDF management tool for Zotero, but the rules and configurations looked a bit off-putting, so I backed out.

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