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Such an amazing effort by @… to compile #Zotero from source in :nixos: nixpkgs. This will make it possible to easily try out Zotero patches or even make your own version with custom changes. Power of Nix! 💪

zotero: 7.0.30 -> 8.0.0, build from source by Mynacol · Pull Request #483099 · NixOS/nixpkgs
I have spent way too much time to build Zotero from source. The only other Linux distribution doing that is Alpine Linux (build files). Todo: Fix the git hashes. We unfortunately need fetchSubmodu...

So… talk to me about #Zotero … How do you use it? WHY do you use it versus other tools? What do you like most?
I realize I am maybe 15 or 20 years late to the Zotero party, but 3 things have me interested now:
- I’m taking on a project at work that involves a good amount of research
- I have some ideas for papers and maybe a book that would benefit from more structured organizatio…

I'm running an improvised tutorial on #Zotero at my work tomorrow. Do you all have useful tips that I could share with my "students" - beyond the basics? Or specific use cases that you might use it for, beyond citing references in papers that you write?
For example I recently moved on to using its integrated PDF reader for peer-reviewing and it works well…