Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. - Home / HN

I highly recommend everyone to use Zotero. Their original marketing as being ‘for academics’ is entirely wrong and it is a first-in-class bookmark/knowledge manager. - HN

• There are many software recommendations that seem sort of hype-y: Obsidian, Notion, Keybase, etc. Zotero is not that and is a daily driver for me for years. It has also replaced Calibre for me although YMMV there.

Library

• One Personal Library per Zotero account
• Multiple Group Libraries (the usual solution), can be:
  • Private (just you)
  • Shared (collaborators, labs, classes, projects)

This is the recommended way to manage multiple libraries (e.g., PhD project, Teaching, Personal reading).

or

• Multiple Zotero profiles (advanced workaround)

Collections ≠ libraries

• Collections are folders inside a single library.
• An item can appear in multiple collections without duplication.

Integration

• Firefox Connector - Save to Zotero from your browser
  • Web Snapshots - Zotero can archive a webpage by creating a Snapshot—an offline file reflecting the state of the page at the time the snapshot was taken.
• Automate Zotero start
  • start minimized

Adding Files to your Zotero Library

Files can be added to your Zotero library as either stored files or linked files.

• Stored files, which are the default, are stored within the Zotero data directory, and Zotero will automatically manage them, including deleting them if you delete the attachment item in Zotero.
• Linked Files Zotero only stores a link to the location of the original file on your computer. Linked files are not synced, nor are they deleted if the attachment item is deleted in Zotero.
• Web Snapshots - Zotero can archive a webpage by creating a Snapshot—an offline file reflecting the state of the page at the time the snapshot was taken.
  • vs SingleFileZ ¹

Syncing

The best way to access your Zotero library from multiple computers is to use Zotero syncing.