Comfortable search and filter function for entry selection.

Runs with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, … (32Bit and 64Bit).

More than 1,700 citation styles available (APA, MLA, Turabian, Harvard, IEEE, ACM, …).

Powerful and highly extensible command-line based document and bibliography manager.Docear4Word allows you to select an entry from your BibTeX database which is then added as reference and bibliography to your Microsoft Word document.Īre you using Windows 8.1 or 10? Then you need to install. A JavaScript implementation of the Citation Style Language (CSL) TQRespec - The respec tool for Titan Quest game Pandoc document export plugin for Obsidian () Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. Alfred Workflow to Integrate with Bookends, an academic reference manager/bibliography tool for macOS Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources. Make Zotero effective for us LaTeX holdouts

When comparing obsidian-citation-plugin and jabref you can also consider the following projects: All the papers I ever read are in my Dropbox, and all I had to do to pick up where I left was download a current version jabRef and point it to my database which it read without any issues. The GUI has an excellent pdf-integration, and everything is local and super fast.Ĭase in point: after a decade in industry, I am looking to get back into my academic fief.

My favorite offline/local reference manager is `jabRef` which stores all metadata directly in a bibtex-file. Offline ensures that if you leave academia, you will always have access to local copies of the academic papers you have referenced. Offline ensures that you have a path for keeping your database throughout your research career, and to do system updates when _you_ want to. Offline ensures that you do not suffer an externally caused downtime just before a deadline If the town is 'online reference managers,' you are probably right, but I would argue that reference managers are one of those areas where you really want something offline: Unless you need Apple Pages support, which Apple keeps to itself and only sells for mighty moolah to a select few, Zotero can do anything EndNote can do, is Open Source, and with that won't drive your PI up the wall with yet another expense. I tend to keep my notes on papers in Zotero, attached to the paper, but export them for filing in Obsidian (which I then feed into MkDocs for our work group's large repo). The latest beta also adds full Markdown export for Notes. That way I can click a button in my browser and have the citation ready in my LaTeX editor, Word, or Obsidian ( ) within seconds. In short, everything I save into a specific folder in my library gets exported as a. Mendeley went full on Evil, and Papers for Mac is Mac only, closed source, and missing dozens of functionalities that are absolutely a must have in academic writing and research.Īn absolute must have is BetterBibTex ( ), which adds better Citekey management and, my personal highlight, 'export on add' functionality. Zotero is, if you're not in the market for a closed source silo like EndNote, the only game left in town.

Perhaps 'living notes' would be a better term, because this is where I try to synthesize ideas from different sources (and thus they'll constantly be expanded and rewritten as I read, learn and think more). In these, I might add ideas from other authors, my own ideas etc.

The second type are like 'permanent notes'. These literature notes stick closely to the original text I won't add anything. I rewrite the highlights in my own words (and have the text open for reference while I do that), and sometimes I'll embed some highlights as quotes if I think it's nice to keep the original wording of the author there too. I write two types of notes: first a 'literature note' (one big one, some I'm not completely sticking to the Zettelkasten method here) with headings for each idea from the texts that I want to have a note on. Then I can go through the (very time-consuming!) task of summarizing these highlights into notes. Now I have a markdown document with metadata and all the highlights. The annotations are exported to Obsidian using the citations plugin (I could share my template, if you're interested). 6+7) Yes, that's correct! I read on the ereader (Boox NoteAir), then import annotations into Zotero (described above).

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