Re: zotero (or mendeley) integration with org

[brian powell <briangpowellms@gmail.com>]

It uses SQLite--Stephen: I'd consider myself a
plaintext-whenever-possible sort of dude too; but,
SQLite (used in ZOTERO) is a simple/short C program and its (last time
I checked) extremely simple--for example there is only "left outer
join".

SQLite "databases" are very easy to work with and are often 1 simple,
small, very portable file.

I was reading some article yesterday: SQLite was ranked #1 in the top
ten best/most useful software of all time.

I understand your concern; and, often an SQL database is overkill and
"NOSQL" seems in vogue right now--but SQLite is something you might
really like--you can manipulate SQLite databases easily, like
plaintext.

I just tried ZOTERO too--very impressive.  I'm a lot more used to
using BibTeX though--which is purely plaintext; but, BibTeX can be a
typing chore!

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Stephen Eglen
<S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Thanks for the informative replies.  I gave zotero a short-test
> yesterday,and in general liked what I found, although as it uses sql
> databases, it is moves away from my preference for plain text files to
> see everything in.   I appreciate that sql may scale better, but I don't
> have huge databases.  I think I'll continue to watch how the zotero
> standalone develops.