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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Welcome to Lesson 8 of the multi-part series on Zotero. We continue from Lesson 7 in which saw how we can set up feeds, create reports and install and use plugins.
In this concluding lesson of this series, we see how to take backups, how to use online Zotero, how to setup file syncing to an external storage solution through WebDAV and how to use the Zotero app in iPhone and iPad. We will also cover some other associated topics like how to create a profile page, how to use My Publications collection and how to export collections.
Feel free to share this video with others and let me know if this tutorial was helpful in the comments.
I've Followed Your Course From A To Z. It Was An Incredibly Well-explained And Insightful Course! I Learned So Many Valuable Things In One Place, And I Truly Appreciate Your Effort In Making This. Your Teaching Style Is Clear, Engaging, And Easy To Follow. Thank You For Sharing Your Knowledge And Helping Others Learn!
@@-bilalcj-4385 Many thanks for your very kind words of appreciation. So glad to know that you found the course useful.
Excellent step by step guide for beginners. Very descriptive and the little mind maps are awesome for non technical people to understand how zotero works. Thank you.
@@sushmachowdarymandava5164 Many thanks for your kind appreciation. Glad that you found the tutorial useful.
Hope you also make video with Zotmoov type add-ons.
Amazing! Long time Zotero user here. Your presentation distilled the concepts in my mind. Thank you. I am also awed by your teaching style: clarity, brevity, attention to detail, anticipating student difficulties and preemptively addressing them and the list goes on and on! Well done and thank you so much. 🙏
Many thanks for your very kind words of appreciation. Felt very happy. Glad that you found this and other other videos in this Zotero 7 series useful. Many thanks once again for your very kind and encouraging words. 🙏
Thanks a lot. This is exactly what I was looking for, bcz I have chosen Koofr as well. My confusion is: 54:40 why did you need to log in to Koofr from iPad browser? Can't we simply generate the app password from desktop browser?
I decided to use linked files (so I sync my papers with Google Drive) and use Zotmoov to put the PDFs in the right folder and automatically rename them. Works fine so far. Thanks for your Zotero series!
Many thanks for following the series and for offering very valuable suggestions and tips.
Thanks for your lesson. I am a beginning user for Zotero so your lesson was very useful for me. BTW, may I have one question? I had set up the sync as Webdav and same on my iphone as you told in the lesson. The server was verified and sync was done well. But when I open the attachment (PDF) on iphone, the error message is shown as "Linked files are not supported on iOS. You can open them using the Zotero desktop app". Could you give a solution that I solve this issue? Thank you so much.
Hi. Glad that you found the video useful. Linked files cannot open on iPad or iPhone. Let me explain why they can't open on the iPhone. When you link a file say a pdf research paper or article to an item in your desktop Zotero, only the link to that item is saved inside Zotero. Say you have a pdf file in your laptops documents folder. You create an item in Zotero , right click on it and choose 'add attachment' and then choose 'linked file' - what is saved is the path where the pdf is stored on your desktop computer i.e. say c:/documents/paper.pdf - just this path rather than the whole pdf is stored by Zotero.
If you are working on your desktop/laptop and click on this attached pdf from inside Zotero, it will show you the pdf contents as using the path it can open the PDF located in your laptops documents folder. So on a laptop, this could be a space saving measure as you already have a pdf copy in one folder, why duplicate it inside the Zotero folder also on the same computer. This may work if you just use your laptop to access your Zotero repository ( in my view it's not a good practice as you can always accidentally delete a pdf file kept in some folder which has been linked inside Zotero)
But when this arrangement is synced on your iPhone i.e. the iPhone also gets this link in attachment which is basically just a path to the pdf file which is physically located on your laptop - that is when to tap on this link in attachment inside Zotero on the iPhone, it tries to open c:/documents/paper.pdf and as it can't just waltz inside your laptop directly in this way and pickup the pdf ( this path means nothing to the iPhone), it politely informs that "linked files are not supported".
The solution is simple and you can try this with one item - just create a test item on your desktop Zotero manually, right click on the item and choose 'add attachment' and then choose 'file' ( not linked file) and point to a pdf on your computer - say in the documents folder - paper.pdf. Or otherwise ( if you don't want to manually create an item) just drag and drop that pdf - say paper.pdf - inside Zotero my library or some collection. Now when you choose file in place of linked file or drag and drop a pdf inside zotero, Zotero instead of saving the path to that file, saves a duplicate copy of the entire pdf inside its Zotero folder. When sync starts now , it uploads the entire pdf (and not just the path to the file) to the cloud storage and as your iPhone is connected to that cloud storage ( via webDAV), it can easily download and open the PDF -(it has access to the cloud storage). So try this out and you should be able to read it on your iPhone.
So in summary, if you want to read full pdfs on your iPhone, make sure that item does not have a linked file attachment in your Zotero desktop app.
Please let me know if you have any problem doing this and I will explain it via a video or some additional screenshots.
Hope this helps.
@@ChinmayaSinghRathore Thank you so much. Thanks to your detailed explanation, I realized that I had changed various file paths while setting things up before watching your lesson. After reinstalling Zotero and following the setup as instructed in the lesson, I am now able to read PDFs on both my iPad and iPhone. Thank you again for your help. 😁😁
@@yukyunglim6120 So glad that it worked out.