Store and search your research notes
Zotero bills itself as your personal research assistant. It’s a free tool for not just collecting notes from a variety of sources, but also organising them, sharing them and even using them as citations and bibliographies within your documents.
Zotero exists as two primary components: a desktop client and a browser extension, known as a web connector. This component enables you to capture all or part of a web page and add it to your collection. More on how that works shortly.
By the time you read this, installing Zotero may be a simple affair using the Zotero-deb wrapper (see https://github.com/ retorquere/zotero-deb) for details, but at time of writing the author was in the process of transferring the package hosting to the Zotero organisation. In the meantime, head over to www.zotero.org/ download/ to download and extract the tarball manually, then type the following commands, which assume you extracted the Zotero_linux-x86_64 directory from the tarball into your Home folder:
Once complete, you should find Zotero has added a shortcut to the Launcher for easy access. Launch Zotero and it’ll open your web browser to where you’ll be invited to install Zotero Connector for Firefox or any Chromium-based browser with access to the Chrome Web Store. If you’re using a different browser, see the Quick Tip (left). You’ll also be
