In short, they managed to overhaul the whole app without breaking any habits we might have developed for the better or worse. And I bet that below the surface many more things have changed for the better, since the app itself also feels more snappy now. They’ve increased the spacing in the main view ever so slightly, which makes the app now look much more modern.įurthermore, many interactions have become smoother and easier to perform, which makes the workflow with the app easier. What you will notice if you’ve used Zotero before is that they changed the overall design and adapted it to look much better. When more and more people use an app, you want to gradually transition your user interface to a new look instead of breaking things everywhere. When I opened up the new Zotero I looked around and found out that nothing much has changed with the interface. My review from last year still holds true: Zotero is the best reference manager out there.īut now, without further ado, let’s dive in. Therefore, before actually diving in, I’d like to issue a formal apology to the Zotero team for my language on Twitter and would like to reaffirm that I am still a fierce supporter of the app.
#Notion and zotero pdf
Until this is fixed, I strongly discourage using the internal PDF reader.
Additionally, I want to highlight one instance where the team accidentally break a lot of workflows unintendedly, which resulted in a small dispute with the Zotero team.Īfter I gave the new built in PDF reader a try, I discovered that my annotations were not stored in the file and complained about that on Twitter in what a colleague of mine quickly pointed out was a way too toxic and snarky tone:Ĭool to find out that the fancy new PDF reader doesn't write the highlights to the actual file. In this article, I want to just give a quick review of what improved and give my general feedback. And I must say: I’m very satisfied with what they deliver.
#Notion and zotero install
I immediately updated my install and gave it a try. I tested the app in production for two weeks now and want to share my thoughts.Īfter what feels like years of development, the Zotero team released the next iteration of the best reference manager out there to the public in March. When I use notion to write down my initial ideas and drafts, it would be very convenient if I could use in notion to mention an item in my reference database, which includes my previous notes on that item.Zotero 6 is out - time for a review. The reason I would love to have the two integrated is that, I think notion is much more convenient in taking notes (allow all kinds of media embedding). It would be nice to see function like right click in zotero - send to notion and an item appears in the linked notion database. For example, if we delete an item in zotero database, it can't be reflected in notion, and if later on I implement the bibliography info in zotero which leads to a change in the citation key, it is also a problem (the unique ID is changed).Īlso moving the entire library to notion is a bit redundant. I thought of things like automate.io to make a google sheet connected to my notion, but the step it allows is very limited.
#Notion and zotero how to
The key thing, of course, is how to keep the two databases connected. I would use the citation key (generated by BetterTex) as the title column (as it automatically to be), which is convenient for referencing.
I tried to export my zotero library as a json file, convert it to csv, and then import to notion, which is good as an initial step. I'm thinking whther we could try something similar used by zettlr-zotero integration ( )?
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