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So far we have solved the reference management problem, the version control problem and the hosting problem…what next? I prefer a free private repository, so I use Bitbucket, even though GitHub has some more advanced features, such as better Wiki support. GitHub has a lot of advanced features, but if you want a private repository, you have to pay. Two of the best known places to host your Git repositories are GitHub and Bitbucket. With Git I can change my code however I want and tag those changes and upload them to a server, so that if my computer disappears, at least I’ve got my code and my references backed up somewhere else. If your thesis requires you to write code, you might want to have a Version Control Software. Zotero notes are also useful as an auxiliary research journal. After I do this, I overwrite the file so that when Zotero synchs up, all my copies have the highlighted file and I can work from my desktop or my netbook, no problem.

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I like to go paperless whenever I can, so I paired Zotero with Adobe Reader, which allows me to highlight text and add comments on the PDF file I’m working on.

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There is a paid third-party app to use it on Android too, but if you prefer to use it from your Android browser, that’s also possible. It also stores a copy of everything on the cloud, so that you can access it through a browser, and is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Zotero is a free reference management tool that can index books, retrieve metadata from PDF files, keep a snapshot of web pages, add links to videos to your library, and create references for most formats out there.

I wanted a program that not only made it easy for me to keep track of what I was reading / had to read, but that also would synch online. I first tried Dropbox and Box to keep my files in one place, but I found them too slow to sync. I tried Endnote in the past, but it wasn't a good fit for me, so I set out to find something else. After all, Calibre had fulfilled my needs during my Master’s, so…īut then there’s this whole boring thing called reference management. I thought that what worked out for my e-book collection, would work out well for my article collection too. That worked out fine until my reading list started to grow, and with it, my need to keep it organized by something else than file names and folders.Įnter Calibre. I could just use a thumb drive to carry files back and forth and work anywhere, anytime, no internet connection required, right?

I thought that if I stuck to a word processor, the simpler the better, and kept my files organized, then I was done. When I started writing my thesis, I wanted to go completely bare bones on it.

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