Zotero - May 2022

The Zotero for iOS release streamlined a lot for me

• App Store
• The Release Announcement
• Hacker News discussions

Zotero clients for Ubuntu, macOS, iPadOS

These fit into my flows from all my work / research machines.

• The Firefox Connector has been key for years.
• The iOS app is key as the Firefox Connector didn’t work on the iPad, the workaround was disruptive and sub-par.
• Other clients and browser Connectors are available

Core Features -> Preferences -> Configuration -> Customization

Zotero is powerful out of the box. My application of it a subset of what’s available for scientific and academic research. Sync with my zotero.org account and all my work machines allows me to

• focus on using existing core features
• de-prioritize Enhancements features in the backlog
• discover lower-level workflow friction points

Zotero Core Features

Libraries, Collections, and Subcollections

Report from Collection

Bibliography from Collection

Preferences

Plenty to tweak here before Configuration -> Customization

Backlog

These dev tasks became de-prio’d as I work through Core Features -> Preferences

• Add tags to Selected
• Mass Update fields
• Change the Item View
• For Item Type ‘Web Page’
• include ‘Website Title’ and / or
• Publisher
• Website Title is not available in
• Research ingest sources
• author, web site,
• calls it “web page” vs mag article
• doesn’t pull in publisher, author, source info
• update views
• Zotero x vsc x GH Pages