Zotero Reference Management

Users recommend Zotero as the preferred tool for managing research papers, PDFs, citations, and references, frequently comparing it favorably to alternatives like Mendeley, JabRef, and EndNote.

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Sample Comments

rammy1234 Jul 11, 2020 View on HN

Try this as well https://www.zotero.org/

ollo May 18, 2020 View on HN

Why should I use this instead of Zotero?

mnkv Sep 25, 2024 View on HN

how does this compare to zotero?

briancleland Mar 25, 2019 View on HN

Have you tried Zotero with the Zotfile extension?

sorokine Jan 3, 2022 View on HN

Zotero is a great tool for references. I am using it for 10+ years mostly for research papers in LaTeX+bib but also for things like "Read It Later" and notes. I find it more straightforward to use than EndNote or Mendeley and Zotero works perfectly fine with my library of about 7K entries. Also it has a useful feature that lets you save your PDFs on a WebDAV server of your choice like pcloud.com or self-hosted.

jabl Mar 26, 2020 View on HN

The same people doing zotero have another project https://tropy.org/ which might be what you're looking for? (Disclaimer: I haven't used tropy personally)

lurker137 Mar 26, 2022 View on HN

Zotero is specifically built for this

jabberthemutt Mar 3, 2019 View on HN

Can I easily use this to replace zotero, jabref, mendeley etc for citation management?

Cyph0n May 25, 2016 View on HN

No problem man, awesome to hear it's useful! Be sure to try out Mendeley[1] too as you may find it better.[1]: https://www.mendeley.com/

doomrobo Sep 5, 2018 View on HN

I use Zotero for the same purpose and it's been great so far: https://www.zotero.org/