Zotero

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January 11, 2023

I have been using Zotero for a year now.

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Here is the process I use.

Installation and setup

zotero account

1st step is to create a zotero account from zotero website, quite usefull to sync libraries between multiple zotero installations.

zotero app

I have installed zotero app within WSL. For a reason the app on my Windows corporate is not the last one, and cannot sync anymore (I think due to too old chrome version).

sudo snap install zotero-snap
# to use CA certificates
FIREFOX_PROFILE=`find ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/ -name *.default`
ZOTERO_PROFILE=`find ~/snap/zotero-snap/common/.zotero/ -name *.default`
cp $FIREFOX_PROFILE/cert9.db $ZOTERO_PROFILE
cp $FIREFOX_PROFILE/key4.db $ZOTERO_PROFILE
cp $FIREFOX_PROFILE/pkcs11.txt $ZOTERO_PROFILE

zotero browser extension

From zotero website, install connectors

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For a reason, install browser connector from zotero app doesn’t do anything here.

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How to use it

As soon as installed in Firefox, the easiest and more efficient way is to navigate sources with Firefox and Click on Zotero add-on Save to Zotero

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It gets all metadata and download PDFs.

Note

We should have the same behaviour from app by using the magic wand but for a certificate reason it fails image.png

And doing the same from zotero website gets metadata but not the pdfs.

Because of that I will focus on this process based on browser add-on.