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User Reviews for Zotero
Really awesome
It is honestly surprising how well and seamlessly this app works. I’ve been hurt too many times when apps like this just don’t work the way they are supposed to, or they have very limited functionality when compared with their desktop counter parts, but the Zotero app works amazingly where so many others have failed.I’m able to write on and annotate documents synced to my account on my iPad with my Apple Pencil, and almost immediately see that document updated on my computer showing the markups I have made and I think that’s just awesome. Thanks for the hard work creating such a useful service!
A failure to make basic functionality work
I am a scientist, a Zotero beta tester, and a past user of almost all the major reference manager systems. I am providing this one star review because, while I am a firm supporter of Zotero (and open source and open science/academia models), this app has failed to improve basic, core functionality during the entire time I have used it from pre-launch betas to the current version. Basic things like being able to reliably import a reference from a webpage works differently across iOS browsers, often failing completely. Downloading a PDF from a publishers site and uploading is often the last resort solution—but one that fails when you don’t have accesses to the PDF from your current network (i.e. when you have institutional access only via VPN or being on the institutional network). Further, basic problems that are reported to the developers, specific improvements that are technically easy to implement and feature requests simply do not get responded to or integrated. I will continue to use the app as I want to support the Zotero ecosystem (and pay for a plan). But I cannot understand how the most basic aspects of a researchers workflow continue to fail constantly or take forever…
New to app, so far great but room for minor tweaks
Zotero is exactly what every researcher needs, and few (if any) do it better than Zotero. However, on iPadOS, until a few basic tweaks are made, Zotero will not be better than a well-organized iPad files app. - Annotating with an Apple Pencil comes in a few colors, all of which are completely opaque. There is no sense in highlighting anything if you cannot see what has been highlighted. - While editing file information, leaving the app (not closing, leaving) erases all progress made. This is particularly frustrating when trying to fill in information needed for a citation. Forgot what year the article was published, so you went back to the database on safari to check? Too bad, when you come back the title, author, publisher, and everything else has been lost and needs to be entered again. - After a file has been made, you cannot add attachments. This would be useful for articles that come in two PDFs, text and examples.EDIT: The developers respond to comments and seem to genuinely want to improve the app. And with the number of bugs fixed recently, that is apparent. As bugs continued to be ironed out, this app will be indispensable.
Zotero just rewrote the game
Granted it’s a bit of a niche game, but still.Like so many others, I’ve always had an internal conflict when it comes to free/open-source software. My head says proprietary software is always more polished, but my heart says FOSS is just the way things should be. Thanks to the incredible devs at Zotero, that conflict is gone.The latest desktop app is simply flawless. The new iOS app is perfect for reading on the go. Honestly, I will be shocked if Zotero doesn’t become the standard reference manager in the next few years.
Finally feels built for iPad!!
When I started using Zotero, the iPad version felt like a clunky afterthought. But recently, the developers have been consistent in putting out excellent quality of life improvements that make it a pleasure to annotate using iPad and Apple Pencil. Good work! Oh, and it's also just a really well done grown up file organizer. Love the way it automatically indexes files and how bib info is easy to copy, and how citation info automatically attach to copied quotes. It's a great product.
Good work but still room for improvement
I really like the IOS version! Quick access to my Zotero database in iPad and iPhone is awesome! As a researcher who prefer reading journal articles on iPad, I really like that I can access the PDF files utilizing the Zotero Cloud Service. No more “send to iPad craps”. But, I have to complain that the built-in PDF reader is really bad. Please add support for better annotating using the Apple Pencil. Or at least, enabling open the PDF using an alternative PDF reader such as PDF Expert (like in the Desktop version). My current workflow is like 1. Download the PDF -> 2. Make a copy to PDF expert -> 3. Read and annotate -> 4. Send a copy to my Mac -> 5. Replace the old pdf with the annotated one. It is still doable but merely too many steps to do so!!! I would highly appreciate any attempts to simplify this workflow~~
Such a welcome addition!!
I’ve been using Zotero for years and up until now on iOS I’ve had to use it as a PWA or some wild “Save to Zotero” script bookmark. These options were inefficient in so many ways. (Although I appreciate the effort they made to help out.)Having an honest to God Zotero app on my phone and iPad is incredible!! There are so many times when I’me using my phone and want to save something I’m researching for later use in a paper or project. Typically I’ve had to resort to some weird way (usually saving the link and then retrieving it later when I’m at my computer).Now I can FINALLY save things naturally and super easily directly from my phone or iPad with the share feature. The interface is clean, the experience of using the library is intuitive. Thank you so much for getting this out!
Finally on the iPad
I prefer to read papers on my iPad, because I started the old fashioned way (with printed papers, a highlighter, and a notepad), and using a tablet with a stylus matches my old workflow better.I had been using a mindmapping/pdf reader app to mark up my papers on my iPad, and it was a little clunky remembering to sync the annotated files with zotero when back on my laptop.Now Zotero lets me take notes and annotations on my iPad in its own app! I’ve started using it today, and I love it. So far I’ve only had difficulty getting an article PDF to attach when sharing to Zotero from one particular website on Safari. Otherwise, it’s gone smoothly, and even lets me add tags, etc. I’m not sure if I’ll use The mind mapping app to read the papers anymore, since Zotero’s note taking function is pretty good now.
The best reference manager I’ve ever used
Having grown weary of paying for upgrades to other software packages, I moved to Zotero years ago, and have been very happy. But some of the solutions for reading and annotating PDF articles have been a bit clunky. Not in the new Zotero 6.0, with its accompanying iOS app. This is amazing. I can now read articles on my iPad—or even iPhone, in a pinch—annotate them, and then have the annotations ready on whatever desktop machine I choose to work with. The annotation features are extremely good, and the convenience cannot be beat. This is the version of Zotero we’d been waiting for, and it’s really great.
Thank you for this
This is certainly a much needed tool on ipad. So far the features are great starts. I find that the pdf reader/highlighter is similar to other tools I’ve used like Highlights. I love that you can see a list of your highlights in the side bar. The mac version of this was indispensable for my work last year, and I look forward to improvements for this ipad version.The main bugs I have noticed so far are that the app doesn’t collect citation data. I’ve tried importing several pdfs and links from oxford music online, but zotero doesn’t enter any metadata such as author, source, year, etc. For pdfs it does create a title. But no other citation data.Additionally the highlight feature tends to bug out for some reason. Certain words will trigger it to highlight seemingly random portions of text all over the page.
Description
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use research tool that helps you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your work. COLLECT • Save journal articles, newspaper articles, books, webpages, and more via the Share button in Safari and other apps • Automatically download article PDFs to read • Quickly add physical books and articles to your Zotero library by scanning book barcodes or article DOIs with your iPhone or iPad camera ORGANIZE • Use collections and tags to organize your research • View and edit bibliographic information for your research items ANNOTATE • Read PDFs and add highlights and notes, or use an Apple Pencil to make freehand annotations CITE • Instantly generate citations and bibliographies in over 10,000 formats and journal styles including APA, Chicago, IEEE, MLA, Turabian, and Vancouver. SHARE • Collaboratively collect sources and mark up PDFs in group libraries with your colleagues • Synchronize your personal and group research libraries to access them via Zotero’s desktop app and the Zotero website • Use the Zotero desktop app to insert your annotations into Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs documents and automatically generate bibliographies from the sources you used Visit zotero.org to learn more about everything you can do with Zotero.
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