Whiteboards are great infovis tools, but expensive and need space. Solution: the whiteboard coffee table. It’s the very poor man’s Microsoft Surface (with no BSOD!). Also, if your taste in home decor tends toward the spartan (as does mine), this makes a great dinner table; it’s durable and really easy to clean. Most importantly, it’s [...]
Use Zotero in a separate window
September 25, 2009 – 5:05 pm
As I’ve written before, I love the free citation manager Zotero. And the group and sharing features that just dropped as part of v2.0b7, while still a little buggy, are taking the awesomeness up another level.
But one thing about Zotero has always really annoyed me: the horizantally-split screen. I never feel like I [...]
Quick book review: Dreaming in Code
April 13, 2009 – 6:32 pm
I imagine Scott Rosenberg reckoned he’d picked a winner when he started Dreaming in Code, his 2007 book chronicling the development of the Chandler personal information manager. The project seemed to have everything going for it. It had all the fashionable features: GTD! Open Source! Peer-to-peer! Level the silos! It was [...]
Zotero Report Customizer 2.0
August 26, 2008 – 6:19 pm
As I’ve discussed in a previous post, I’m an enthusiastic user of the free reference manager Zotero; I’m impressed with how such young, open-source product has managed to quickly outshine established, non-free alternatives like EndNote.
One difficulty I (and others) have had with Zotero, though, is in generating reports for a group of articles. Particularly, [...]
Zotero: the best open-source app you’ve never heard of.
May 17, 2008 – 5:46 am
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Zotero. But, speaking from experience, Zotero is one of the best open-source projects out there. What is it? In the project website’s words:
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right [...]