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Comment on Papers (PDF organizer, Mac only) by Guillex

Guillex — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:51:55 +0000

Hi, great program for researchers and PHD Students… I am from Argentina, here, we don´t use MAC because they are expensive… don´t you know any program like this that can be run in a Linux or Win PC.
Thanks a lot

Guillex

Comment on Fluxiom: is it the solution to online PDF organization? by mike@studenthacks

mike@studenthacks — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:26:35 +0000

Fluxiom looks awesome. I definitely need to check that out. I was going to recommend Zotero - but James beat me to the punch. Zotero is my favorite research plugin for Firefox. It quickly allows me to save pdfs and citations for online journals. I can assemble my work cited lists in minutes now.

Comment on Fluxiom: is it the solution to online PDF organization? by JamesH

JamesH — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:48:53 +0000

Zotero, the excellent open source bibliographic utility, can index the full text of pdf’s stored in it’s database, using platform specific programs with only a little setup.

http://www.zotero.org/documentation/pdf_fulltext_indexing

When you suck a citation from many online databases, Zotero will automatically grab the pdf (if it’s available). On sites where this is not automatic, it’s easy to drag a link to a pdf into your library, or to select a file on your computer. Zotero can pull in almost all bibliographic files, so it’s easy to migrate to, and everything is stored in a transparent way, so you will never be locked in.

Zotero is a firefox plugin, but in future versions will have a built-in web accessible dimension for collaboration and availability from any computer.

Comment on Fluxiom: is it the solution to online PDF organization? by lemire

lemire — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:51:48 +0000

It looks like too much “fluffiness” anyhow.

Comment on Windows alternatives for DEVONthink by Fluxiom: is it the solution to online PDF organization? « Academic Lifehacker

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:53:37 +0000

[...] thought that it could be a good centralized solution to DevonThink for those of us on Windows, with the added bonus of being available from any computer. Sort of like a personal Google [...]

Comment on Academic Conference Travel Tips by lemire

lemire — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:01:12 +0000

Thanks.

Comment on Academic Conference Travel Tips by academiclifehacker

academiclifehacker — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:59:05 +0000

Hi Daniel,

Sorry I missed out your post on my roundup! Thanks very much for letting me know– I’ve included it in the main post now.

Comment on Academic Conference Travel Tips by lemire

lemire — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:27:50 +0000

You missed my “Conference travel tips”:

http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/conference-travel-tips/

Comment on 24 Hour Buddies by Geoff R

Geoff R — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:59:01 +0000

Hey, do you have a contact email address? I’d like to talk to you about something student productivity related, but I cannot find your contact form.

If you can, please drop a line at my email above, I’d love to talk!

Comment on Maple and other Windows outliners by Vic

Vic — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:02:44 +0000

There’s a list of 63 outliners at mind-mapping.org (it’s not just mind-mappers). Most of those are desktop software, but Web 2.0 has produced some on-line outliners as well. As they’re browser based, you can get at them from anywhere with a web connection, and even collaborate with others on a single outline.

- sproutliner.com is a basic on-line outliner that lets you share outlines
- thinkfold.com is a collaborative on-line outlining application
- loosestitch.com is similar

Then there’s all the web-based mind map and concept map tools . . .

Regards
Vic
http://www.mind-mapping.org
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software