Comment by Almondsetat
2 hours ago
What I dislike about Zotero is that it's a pain in the ass to self host. In my department I could spin up a local Zotero server for our PhD students and give them basically unlimited sync, but it's really finnicky
2 hours ago
What I dislike about Zotero is that it's a pain in the ass to self host. In my department I could spin up a local Zotero server for our PhD students and give them basically unlimited sync, but it's really finnicky
I agree. It's "open source" but I would put a huge asterisk on that label. It really reminds me most of AI models that are only open weights.
What difficulties are you having? All you need is WebDAV. I use a nextcloud server for mine and my partner's zotero storage, and its entirely trivial to set up.
I have many issues with Zotero (which has been dumbing down at the expense of power users for some time) – but easy private sync is definitely not one of them.
I've been wanting to try it. In what way is it finnicky?
It is not supported natively (you can use a webdav server but it doesn't sync everything) and the third party options don't have the level of stability I'd need
In this day and age, I'd say this is hardly an excuse. Spin up your favorite harness and let the agents sort it out. :)