Personal Knowledgebase I - Comparing Mendeley, Zotero, Evernote & Citavi

Balancing the need for intra and extratextual annotation with the sort of citation tree I covered in the last video, gives rise to a new set of infrastructural problems that can only be resolved with the additional organizational power of a knowledgebase (0:27). In this video I will compare Evernote (4:25), Mendeley (5:03), Zotero (6:07) and Citavi and explore their ability to resolve these problems, focusing on Citavi and its unique ability to generate microthematic metadata.

[@neerajkumarsharma8853]

Please compare these again, 4 years have passed.

[@myiachanmagicalgirl]

Is this just an ad for Citavi?

[@myiachanmagicalgirl]

I...don't know how to feel about the integrity of this video. They show the full price differences onscreen but the narrator talks like Zotero is either 0 dollars or 120 dollars per year when the screen shows there are middle ground options.

[@anaitalashley5103]

hi

[@dr.blakecurtissc.d2306]

I haven't see anything that comes to Citavi when it comes to annotating, organizing knowledge, and managing citations. It's truly a life saver.

[@Nick-nt1sb]

Do you have any experiences with EndNote? It is supposed to be quite good, and you can use it with Mendeley.

[@bwbprojects]

Thank you for the enlightening and brilliant comparison. Would you add ReadCube on this? I using Zotero consistently. Two issues that annoy me: a) it does not do (yet) is to correctly archive PDFs into a library folder; b) cloud storage sync problem (something related to local cache files).

[@topfti9663]

can Zotero search icon perhaps be operated out of libraries (online articles) before adding the results to the main application/library? withal, thumbs up for Mendeley on this embedded functionality.

[@misterjhubi]

Thank you for posting this video!!

[@turker03]

Mendeley need screen scaning tool same as Zotero.

[@andremouton9132]

Thank you for this very informative video. Exactly the explanation I was looking for. I just wish that there was another alternative as I have found it slow using Zotero with locally stored PDF files. I will install EndNote for a comparison.

[@ashf8960]

Thank you, very informative video.

[@zapy422]

Thank you for this video?
How to transfer you notes from evernote to zotero or vice versa

[@zapy422]

Does zotero really provide mobile apps?

[@JudeToochukwuIbe]

Zapy third party apps exist, I'm in the process of making one for mobile and tablets and soon after Chromebooks.

[@ShyamBhakta]

I use Zed Lite.