Sep 8, 2020
Citavi
- my team is already using this software
- proprietary, mostly used by German institutions
Prossss
- in-app pdf viewer, pretty fast compared to Acrobat, similar with Preview
- save pdf annotation directly in app
- embedded todo management
- powerful note taking system (Quotation)
- able to preview search result
Con
- proprietary, not many users outside Germany (forum discussion mostly in German)
- only supports windows
- the transfer and sharing of references between projects is more effortful (import, export)
- unable to change interface font size, unable to change layout to column and row
Zotero
- the reference management tool that I have used the longest and most often
Pros
- free, light weight, open source, cross platform
- active community for Q&A and add-on development
- able to organize all references in library or in specific “Collection”
- better bibtex support
Cons
- note taking ability is very limited and simplistic
Current pick 2020-08-26
- still using zotero for my personal library, but use Citavi for a cloud project shared with my team (share articles with each other for journal club and journal briefing)
- importing Zotero bibtex to Citavi issues: no collection, tag, related (article) info