Comments on: Omea pdf organiser http://anggarrgoon.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/omea-pdf-organiser/ Bardi on the Web Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:53:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: The Ideophone http://anggarrgoon.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/omea-pdf-organiser/#comment-16950 The Ideophone Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:17:25 +0000 http://anggarrgoon.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/omea-pdf-organiser/#comment-16950 Try <a href="http://zotero.org" rel="nofollow">Zotero</a>. It works as a Firefox plugin, hence on all major OSes. It beautifully integrates with the browsing experience, making it extremely simply to grab references from major repositories like Google Scholar, JSTOR, CSA/LLBA, and lots more. If you save a ref, it automagically gives you a record with all relevant fields (author, year, journal, pages, etc.); and for fulltext resources it also grabs the PDF. If many of your PDFs actually are digital versions of published or at least citable works, Zotero (which bills itself as a next generation reference manager) is going to be a great help. I made the move two months ago and it has given me complete control over three Gig worth of saved PDFs and other materials. Records can be organized in collections (recursively) and you can also use tags. There is a nice 'locate' button which, given the right URL resolver, gives direct access to online repositories in case you didn't save a local copy. And that's just the surface. No, I have no stakes in the Zotero enterprise. I just completely fell for it. See zotero.org; there are nice tutorials and intro movies there, along with very helpful forums. Try Zotero. It works as a Firefox plugin, hence on all major OSes. It beautifully integrates with the browsing experience, making it extremely simply to grab references from major repositories like Google Scholar, JSTOR, CSA/LLBA, and lots more. If you save a ref, it automagically gives you a record with all relevant fields (author, year, journal, pages, etc.); and for fulltext resources it also grabs the PDF.

If many of your PDFs actually are digital versions of published or at least citable works, Zotero (which bills itself as a next generation reference manager) is going to be a great help. I made the move two months ago and it has given me complete control over three Gig worth of saved PDFs and other materials. Records can be organized in collections (recursively) and you can also use tags. There is a nice ‘locate’ button which, given the right URL resolver, gives direct access to online repositories in case you didn’t save a local copy. And that’s just the surface.

No, I have no stakes in the Zotero enterprise. I just completely fell for it. See zotero.org; there are nice tutorials and intro movies there, along with very helpful forums.

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