Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderZotero is simply a wonderful tool and I'm very grateful to the developers for it. As an academic, it is the only GUI program besides Firefox that I consider essential on one of my computers. Some of the features I enjoy: * free software * Linux and multi-platform support * browser extension "that just works" for ingesting items and magic lookup tool for DOIs and arXiv IDs (and I hardly ever have problems with the metadata) * shared group libraries…
I use a little script [1] and a passive approach to quickly find a PDF I am looking for among a few thousands of academic PDF. The workflow (illustrated in the GIF [2]): - as I read new PDFs in the browser, the PDFs are passively downloaded typically in a Downloads/ folder. - This results in thousands in papers lying in Downloads/ or elsewhere. - The command p from the script [1] let me instantaneously fuzzy-search over the first page…
> Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. I do use LibreOffice for my academic writing and Zotero help me manage my citations in a super reliable and user friendly way. If you are okay with the looks of a word processor and want a nice experience with citations, have a look at Zotero :)
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1611
- Total comments
- 371
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-29 | Free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, share research sources | dandelion_lover | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-07-25 | Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share researchFirst breakout | autocorr | 659 | 163 |
| 2020-03-26 | Zotero: Personal Research AssistantBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | supdatecron | 945 | 206 |
| 2021-07-09 | Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research | danboarder | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-06-15 | Zotero – Your personal research assistant | asimops | 3 | 2 |
| 2024-12-09 | Zotero – Your personal research assistant | OuterVale | 2 | 0 |