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Comment by jwardbond

Serendipitous, as I was just planning a lit review on a topic I am unfamiliar with, and was frustrated by my increasingly messy list of "to read".

Quick thoughts:

- I would like a "not read" stack, for papers that I peeked at but decided against reading.

- The registration link took a few minutes to come in, I thought something was broken.

- I keep trying to click the stack titles to take me into the stacks, but they aren't clickable.

- I couldn't figure out how to use a summary credits

- I couldn't figure out how to search/export my notes and tags

- I would like a way to quickly see my own 1-line summaries of the papers I have read. Maybe under the titles/authors.

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Long Thoughts:

What does this do that a "to-read" folder on Zotero doesn't? This post made me ask myself why I don't just use the to-read folder I already set up in Zotero.

1) Adding something to zotero is a bit of a process, and feels like I have to be 100% committed to reading it, and thus I hesitate to put the "I'll check it out later" papers into my to-read folder on zotero. Your website is much more focused and low-effort to use.

2) I often forget why I wanted to read something in the first place. I like to store items on my to-read list according to the parent paper I discovered them in, to remember what I was doing when I added them to the list. Zotero notes/relations are not the easiest way to do this, so I stick to a markdown list.

3) My to-read list is so long, with so many papers from 2 years ago that I didn't end up needing, that I don't know where to start when I look at it. It would be nice to have a way to rank papers on my list by priority, or group them by topic tags, etc.

parent jwardbond 9 months ago

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