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John van de Wetering (Feb 22 2021 at 13:09):Which tools do people here use to keep track of papers that they have read or simply caught their eye? I've tried a bunch of different things and nothing has really stuck with me so far, so I'm keen on learning better methods/tools.
Fawzi Hreiki (Feb 22 2021 at 13:23):Well I usually save them to Calibre and then you can form reading lists in that
Fawzi Hreiki (Feb 22 2021 at 13:24):You can also add tags
Nick Hu (Feb 22 2021 at 13:25):@John van de Wetering I like Zotero; it's easy to use and has a nice browser extension
Chad Nester (Feb 22 2021 at 13:29):I have a directory on my machine called "papers". I just name them like author1-...-authorN-year-title.pdf and use grep to search.
Chad Nester (Feb 22 2021 at 13:30):Sometimes I use org-mode to make notes (you can link to local files).
John van de Wetering (Feb 22 2021 at 13:32):I tried something like that, but was a bit too careless about it and it became a mess. Zotero looks promising though.
Chad Nester (Feb 22 2021 at 13:32):yeah you have to commit to naming things when you download them or it doesn't really work haha
Nick Hu (Feb 22 2021 at 13:55):Zotero also has sync (including pdfs)
Fabrizio Genovese (Feb 22 2021 at 13:58):My approach is "don't and forget" :smile:
Jules Hedges (Feb 22 2021 at 13:58):Fabrizio Genovese said:
My approach is "don't and forget" :)
Me too. I've got really efficient at it
Fabrizio Genovese (Feb 22 2021 at 14:03):It has its perks tho, when someone knows you and tells you about a new paper they put out and you reply "Wow, I'll put it in my reading list" they immediately realize that either they explain everything to you in front of a whiteboard or there is no hope you will ever give them any useful feedback
Nick Hu (Feb 22 2021 at 14:05):I tend to only catalogue things I've read rather than "intend to read" (implied ETA: never ever)
John van de Wetering (Feb 22 2021 at 14:15):I just imported my big bib file into Zotero. Most of my arxiv entries have the journal field populated with an arxiv identifier, but do not have the url field populated. Is there some way in which I can tell Zotero to use the arxiv id to construct the url?
Tim Hosgood (Feb 22 2021 at 14:40):with zotero, arxiv entries work best if you save them as reports rather than journal articles, then you simply have “arxiv” as the “archive” entry (i think it’s called)
Tim Hosgood (Feb 22 2021 at 14:41):and you put the arxiv article number in “location in archive” and the section tag (eg math.CT) in “call number”
Tim Hosgood (Feb 22 2021 at 14:41):it’s also definitely worth downloading the BetterBibTex add on for zotero :)
John van de Wetering (Feb 23 2021 at 14:44):I just found that there is the option of "Find available PDFs" which does pretty much what I wanted: direct access to a pdf without having to go through the browser. Zotero is looking better by the day :)
Nick Hu (Feb 23 2021 at 16:49):Another useful feature I have found is the "magic search" where you can just paste a DOI and it will find the entry for you and put it in your collection
Martti Karvonen (Feb 23 2021 at 17:48):Nick Hu said:
Another useful feature I have found is the "magic search" where you can just paste a DOI and it will find the entry for you and put it in your collection
The bibtex equivalent of that one is doi2bib.org/
Joe Moeller (Feb 23 2021 at 17:50):Martti Karvonen said:
Nick Hu said:
Another useful feature I have found is the "magic search" where you can just paste a DOI and it will find the entry for you and put it in your collection
The bibtex equivalent of that one is doi2bib.org/
Whoa! Awesome
Matteo Capucci (he/him) (Feb 23 2021 at 21:20):Also SciHub :moon_face: