Developed by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Zotero is a software solution for users who need to create and organize articles or other types of documents. It is also extremely effective when you need to add or manage citations that are used in research studies.
After you install the program, you are greeted by a simple interface, with a regular menu at the top, a left panel and the main area for displaying information. Besides that, the GUI doesn't have any remarkable features. It could've had some themes to choose from or a better choice of theme colors.
With Zotero, the collections can be sorted and tagged with keywords. Another noticeable option is that you can create saved searches that, as you work, automatically fill with relevant materials.
In addition to those mentioned above, the program is capable of supporting more than 9000 citation styles, that can be formatted to fit any type of style guide or publication.
Moreover, if you want, you can synchronize data across devices in order to keep the files, notes, and other records up to date. The synchronized data can be accessed from any web browser.
Overall, Zotero is a simple but efficient solution for users who want to always stay in control of their data. It lacks an easier way to use tags or annotations and has poorly designed interface but in the end, it does its job.
v5.0 [Jul 17, 2017]
-Show better messages for Word permissions errors in maOS Mojave
-Don't add four spaces when pressing Tab to indent list in note
-Add zotero://select support for collections
-Fixed error when adding empty tag via Connector save popup
-Show “Find Available PDFs” even if notes or attachments are included in selection
-Fixed 'req is undefined' error after consecutive S3 failures
-Fixed note being read-only after viewing note in trash
-Fixed popup when no items are eligible for “Find Available PDFs”
-Fixed imports with missing attachments not closing the progress window
