Zotero and the Zotfile Extension

Zotero is an open-source citation management software which, helps to organize your citations and PDFs. But its primary purpose is to make it easier to add properly formatted in-text citations and bibliographies into your papers. Zotero software is free, but offers a very limited amount of free cloud storage. The Zotero database houses the metadata for the citations you create and its PDF. The size of the PDF for a citation varies and is based on the number of pages and the number of images in the PDF. You can pay a modest fee to increase your Zotero cloud storage, but another option is the Zotfile extension for Zotero. This video demonstrates how the Zotfile extension works and how to set it up.

Introduction - 0:04
What is Zotero - 0:15
Zotero storage limits - 0:46
What is Zotfile and what does it do? - 1:45
Managing PDFs with Zotero and Zotfile - 3:15
Using Zotfile to read and annotate - 6:17
Zotfile - Retrieving PDFs from a tablet - 10:30
Set up - Installing Zotfile - 12:25
Set up - Zotfile (Zotero preferences) - 14:27
Set up - Zotfile preferences - 18:12
Things to know about Zotfile - 23:16
Troubleshooting and set up variations - 24:06