![]() ![]() Installing NextCloud is relatively easy, but if you don't want to you can always use a provider. ![]() I am currently using the Docker image maintained by the people at linuxserver.io. There are many ways to install NextCloud: the simplest are surely using NextCloudPi (which despite the name works on many platforms, not only on the Raspberry Pi) or YunoHost. If you don't know what NextCloud is, you can think of it as a replacement for many Google products that you can self-host: it's a combination of Drive, Calendar, Photos (not as good), and its functionality can be extended with other NextCloud Apps. ![]() With this combination, the metadata of my papers are synchronized using my Zotero account, but the actual file are in the NAS running in my kitchen. My current solution is to use a combination of Zotero Sync and NextCloud. – Easy to retrieve things from (I like traveling with a clean laptop, but at my destination I need to keep working.) – Under my full control (I don't want to risk losing access to my files because of a third party.) I also want this external location to be: So I needed a solution to move the storage to an external location. My collection of papers is large, and the SSD on my laptop isn't. This includes both the metadata and the full text, if the website gives access to that. You can install an add-on in your browser, called Zotero Connector, that makes the importing easy: when you are browsing the arXiv or a journal's website, you just click the Connector button and the paper is added to your Zotero collection. The nice thing about this workflow is that almost everything is automated. You don't need to have the actual pdf/djvu file of the work to create an entry, but if you do, the pdf will be copied to a directory structure automatically created by Zotero (on my system I use ~/docs/zotero). The fundamental idea of Zotero is this: you import a paper into it, and the metadata of the paper are automatically downloaded creating an entry in the database. I needed a solution to manage my collection of research papers, and I wanted it to be free and open.Īfter trying a few solutions, including kbibtex and Polar, I settled on Zotero. ![]()
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