The benefit of doing this is that if you update a file on your local drive it is automatically reflected in Zotero. In Scrivener, right click on ‘Research’ and add new folders to get the structure set up… Sharing files between these applications and editing/extracting notes.Īdding items to Zotero is a simple drag/drop operation, however Zotero has a bizarre internal storage system so I opted to link the files to it rather than create copies. PhD) and right click on this collection to add sub-collections such as ‘Theory’. In Zotero, right click on ‘My Library’ to create a new collection (e.g. I set up the structure in Zotero and the research folder in Scrivener in the same vein to keep consistency and help to remember where things were (or should be). I tend to work on the local copies of the cloud files, this doesn’t cause any issues but you need a decent internet connection to avoid any latency issues for large files. I like the way it stores a local copy of files and synchronises them in the cloud. I work with OneDrive and this is historic rather than a preference. I do the majority of my editing work on a MacBook Pro and use an iPad Pro for reading and note taking. So, you could break down your 100K word dissertation into a set number of words for each chapter/sub-chapter if you wanted and set dates for completion. It can manage your writing by allowing goals and targets to be set for word counts and deadlines. It works well with Zotero and will export your work in many formats such as Word, e-book etc. Scrivener features make the planning, organisation and arrangement of long documents much easier to manage and will store both your writing and your research. It isn’t free, but at around £40 I think it’s worth the cost. Scrivener is a very powerful writing application. I preferred one note that was sequenced as I’d annotated it on the PDF, so that is what I will describe here. green highlights, yellow highlights etc, but I found that this didn’t help me as things looked disjointed. It is possible to extract colour coded highlights as separate notes e.g. It has the ability to extract annotations that are colour coded and will extract them from notes, highlights or underlined text. an iPad, Android tablet, etc.) and, most importantly for me, extract annotations from PDF files. It can automatically rename, move, and attach PDFs (or other files) to Zotero items, sync PDFs from your Zotero library to your (mobile) PDF reader (e.g. Zotfile is a Zotero plugin that manages attachments. It supports every referencing format I’ve ever seen. When you save an item to Zotero it will automatically get all the information for referencing and it will create references and bibliographies directly to MS Word via an add-in. Great if you tag items with theory concepts and then create a search to pull them all together. When you search by keyword you can save this search and it will automatically fill with relevant materials as you work. You can sort items into collections and tag them with keywords. This can be in many formats including web pages. Its features include the ability to automatically sense research on the web and save direct to your Zotero folder, this synchronises with an online account you create so you can access your work anywhere. Zotero is very effective research software and is open source. This is not a technical tutorial (save a few parts) and won’t go into the download and installation of the various elements of the software as there are many good tutorials out there for that purpose. It follows from my searches online for hints and tips, so there is nothing really new here but I hope it will save others some time. The purpose of this post is to introduce the way I’m going to use Zotero, Zotfile and Scrivener for my PhD research.
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