For use in genealogy it can take a much more rigorous approach to sources than most of us do in \u0192h<\/span><\/span>, both in terms of accurate citations etc. but also in terms of managing our use of sources.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Zotero\u00a0can be very useful if your research is source driven. So for instance if much of your work is triggered by:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Zotero can help.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The above screen shot shows some of the useful features:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n If you then wish to document your research to “academic standards”, there are\u00a0Zotero\u00a0add-ins for the major word-processors (MS Office, Libre Office, etc) to help create the citations and bibliography.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n If you enter details of all books etc that you acquired into Zotero, it can help you keep track of what you have bought and avoid buying duplicates! By adding a subnote you can record why you bought the book and what research is planned.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n If you use the Browser add-ins for\u00a0Zotero\u00a0you can highlight an ISBN (say on an Amazon listing), right click and select “Save to Zotero” and the full details of the book are looked up and added to\u00a0Zotero. Alternatively there is an icon to allow ISBNs to be directly entered into\u00a0Zotero\u00a0– which then looks up all the details. There is also an add-on available (from an\u00a0extensive list<\/a>) that enables you to use an iPhone to scan a book’s barcode in order to add it to the Zotero Library.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n This is based on a\u00a0FHUG post<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n (I use Evernote for anything I need to remember to do. House, garden, clothes etc. Evernote free is now limited for use on only two devices.<\/p>\r\n In the days when Evernote was free for many devices, there was a detailed blog or lecture from USA on how it could be used for genealogy. I switched to One note and then back again – the actual program doesn’t matter that much. So long as it is cloud based and on my phone.)<\/p>\r\n For documents in archives I use Zotero. Zotero is a free bibliography program. Bibliography software used to be massively expensive for anyone who did not have university membership and Zotero is the first class solution.<\/p>\r\n I keep a separate folder in Zotero called Archive list in which I list documents. There are fields for the Archive and the file number. Users sometimes complain that Zotero is not well designed to list archive files. But it works for me.<\/p>\r\n If I need to read a file I add a note “To read” followed by my own abbreviation for the archive. Zotero has an ultra efficient search across all fields, so I type in “To read Kew” and that produces a list of all the files and file numbers I plan to read at the National Archive and then, if one has a reader’s ticket, one can order them up in advance.<\/p>\r\n Similarly in my Zotero Bibliography folder, I list books or publications with the name of the Library and the shelf number and I can use a text search to call up anything I have marked to read in the British Library or elsewhere.<\/p>\r\n Zotero is designed for citing references, so it is easy to copy and paste sources into \u0192h<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\r\n Zotero can be used to make full notes on books and it will hold long text documents and pdf’s. But I don’t use it that way. Because notes can get buried. Whereas with Zim<\/a>, one can see the hierarchy of notes.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSpecific Features<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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