Zotero

Category: tool

Summary: A reference manager commonly used for academic sources, citations, and PDFs.

What it means

Zotero is important for research workflows because it helps manage bibliographic metadata, PDFs, annotations, and citations.

How it shows up in personal knowledge management

It connects to citation-practices, research-workflow, source-notes, pdf-annotation, and tool-stack.

Common mistakes

• Separating citations from notes so claims lose context.
• Keeping PDFs organized but never synthesizing them.

Related pages

• citation-practices
• research-workflow
• source-notes
• pdf-annotation
• tool-stack