in my off again on again investigation into note taking and annotation software I happened across Pliny.
The download link for the Mac version was broken for me but I found a second copy on SourceForge which downloaded and installed just fine.
Like the Zotero client it provides annotation, which is the thing that Evernote does not do, which at the least allows you to flag relevant passages in documents.
However Pliny does not look as if it has had substantial development since 2009, and if I was a serious user I would be hesitant committing to it long term - Zotero overall would look to be a better bet, with a larger user community behind it, especially in academia.
However Zotero would need to truly escape from the Firefox ghetto and perhaps get itself onto iPads and Android tablets to be truly useful, given that seems to be the way the world is going ...
The download link for the Mac version was broken for me but I found a second copy on SourceForge which downloaded and installed just fine.
Like the Zotero client it provides annotation, which is the thing that Evernote does not do, which at the least allows you to flag relevant passages in documents.
However Pliny does not look as if it has had substantial development since 2009, and if I was a serious user I would be hesitant committing to it long term - Zotero overall would look to be a better bet, with a larger user community behind it, especially in academia.
However Zotero would need to truly escape from the Firefox ghetto and perhaps get itself onto iPads and Android tablets to be truly useful, given that seems to be the way the world is going ...
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Well, on your mention of a standalone Zotero I dove in last night, and it's up and running standalone and with the chrome plugin on a Ubuntu linux box :) I'd call that Firefox-free :)
Certainly Firefox free, and as I said part of an escape from the Firefox jail. It will be interesting to see how well they sustain this strategy ...
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