A Survey on Toolchains of Paper Management

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Management

1. [x] Zotero
2. [x] Mendeley
3. [x] Papis

Storage

1. [x] Baidu
2. [x] NutStore

Reading

1. [x] Margin Note 3
2. [x] Adobe Acrobat Reader
3. [x] Polar Bookshelf

Writing

1. [x] Vim & Pandoc

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All PDF readers suck. Maybe I need to reinvent a new one.

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Zotero

Pros

• Open source
• Chrome extension
• WebDAV

Cons

• Ugly
• Poor notes

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MarginNote 3

Pros

• Powerful
• Beautiful

Cons

• Expensive
• Only available for Apple Devices
• iCloud Storage only
• When syncing, newly annotated PDFs seem to be wholly uploaded. So it is slow if the file is large.

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Polar Bookshelf

Pros

• Open source
• Available for all PC

Cons

• Ugly
• Cannot manipulate annotations
• Wrong word selected when looking it up in dictionary
• Able to export annotations in markdown or JSON but it is next to useless

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Mendeley

Pros

• Community
• Builtin PDF Reader

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Papis

Pros

• Command line
• Powerful
• Extendable

Cons

• Bugs everywhere

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Preview

Pros

• Native
• Powerful Annotation, Highlight and Comments

Cons

• Annotation is not editable or movable

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Adobe Acrobat Reader

Pros

• Android Version Available
• Functional

Cons

• All data seems to be locked in their own products

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Baidu

Pros

• All Flatforms Available
• Easy to Share

Cons

• Black-hearted
• Slow

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NutStore

Pros

• All Flatforms Available
• More and More Useful Apps Available

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Citation Management in command line

• [x] https://github.com/juris-m/citeproc-js
• [x] https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles
• [x] https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales
• [x] https://github.com/jlegewie/zotfile
• [x] https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex
• [x] https://github.com/tompollard/phd_thesis_markdown
• [x] https://github.com/mabl/pandoc-thesis
• [x] https://github.com/Wookai/paper-tips-and-tricks
• [x] https://github.com/papis/papis
• [x] https://pandoc.org/demo/example19/Extension-citations.html