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I've been using this in beta for quite a while. The PDF reader is really very good, and I love the fact that my highlights and notes are not added to the actual PDF file. (I don't want to mess up the original PDF file, because I like to keep those files in pristine form so that e.g. I can share them with students.)

Some people here are asking about paying for storage for the PDFs. My solution to this is to store my PDFs using Dropbox, and to use links in Zotero. That way, even if I give up on Zotero, I still have the files. And I already pay for Dropbox, and just don't want one more bill to pay.

And, woohoo, an iOS app! That's very sweet.

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Zotero also offers out it the box WebDAV Support for file sync. I use that to sync files using my Nextcloud. Once it is set up, everything works behind the scenes.

https://www.zotero.org/support/sync

If you sync your library to at least one device, you'll still have all the files anyway if you stop paying - you just won't be able to sync them anymore. The metadata will all still by synced.

The dropbox/onedrive/etc. approach works, but honestly I find it easier to share files from a group library (they don't need a paid account) and keeps structure etc. there also....

My solution to your dropbox trick has been: https://jcuenod.github.io/bibletech/2020/06/14/zotero-github...

And also, Zotero is not that expensive. And I'll be happy to support such an awesome project.

Isn't Mendeley free? That might explain why Zotero isn't that well known.

Zotero is also free for all intents and purposes. There's a paid tier with unlimited cloud storage for your pdf collection, but besides that everything is free.

Hosting my own WebDAV server on my symbology nas! Very easy to set up, the only stumbling block is getting a domain name and setting up ddns

> an iOS app!

And Zotero’s on the `Share Sheet` —- saving to Zotero works from Firefox iOS which doesn’t do plugins. Excellent.

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