Zotero, the best research tool
Research activities involves a lot of tasks: reading articles, writing notes, searching for documents, web navigating, and, what is more important, Forget where you put the exact paper you need at this moment!
Zotero is a Mozilla Firefox plugin that can help you to deal with big amounts of information, documents, links, etc. Some of its most outstanding features by now:
- Automatic capture of citations from web pages.
- Store of PDFs, files, links and complete web snapshots.
- A powerfool ‘as you type’ searching tool, which looks also inside PDF files.
- Nice organization mechanisms, with directories or tags.
- Great usability.
- Integration with OpenOffice and MS Word and exportation facilities.
- So, It is perfect?
- Noooo!
- No? Why not?
Zotero doesn’t have an online storing server so far. The good news are that version 2.0 promises to give as this feature as a free present for all zotero lovers. You can read more about this plans in Zotero blog.
