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Posted by Slartibartfarst
Jun 5, 2016 at 07:06 AM

MenAgerie wrote:
Thanks for this Slartibartfast, I have used Zotero for years as my sole repository of scholarly references - it integrates nicely with Word for academic papers. I also store loads of pdfs in it - mostly to keep them associated with the bibliographical reference rather than as a way of using them for research work. I tried using it as a PIM, but never got it to work smoothly for me. Thus I was interested to hear that you use it for this purpose…could you give a brief rundown of how you use it - to inspire me to get me started down that road once again?
I also have Wezinc, and find its ability to suck emails out of GMail [despite Google’s security objections notwithstanding], along with the mindmapping aspect, very useful. Overall though I seem to have settled with the pure .txt benefits of ZimWiki, for the bulk of my notetaking and research storage [weblinks and snippets only].
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In answer, as I wrote:
My suggestion would be that, if you need to save web snapshots/pages, clippings, attached documents and files and notes on same, then put them in something like, for example:
1. Scrapbook ...
2. Zotero ...
3. Wezinc ...

I was not attempting to discuss their potential as PIMs. That would be a wholly different post.

So far, the most useful PIM I have is described here:
Microsoft OneNote - how to make it your 21st century Zettelkasten PIM. - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=0jmua047unft36lrnn30sbgp27&topic=31755.msg393032#msg393032