Zotero

In one of the readings so far this semester, Zotero, an online way to keep track of the sources one uses on a paper, was introduced.

I had honestly never heard of this, so I was a little interested, but I didn't think much of checking the thing out until I was assigned to in class.

When I got to the website, I wasn't so sold on the idea of it.

• It requires a download.
• The website looked a bit much like Mediafire, an online piracy site.
• It requires an account.

So those are just the first three cons that I could think of when I visited the site. I probably wouldn't mind using it if it didn't require a download, but seeing as my laptop is getting pretty old, I am very cautious with what I do with it. I still have half of this semester, the summer, and student teaching to get through with it, and I don't want anything I won't use regularly on it.

I also thought that I already have a pretty easy way to organize my sources for papers and research assignments; I just use EasyBib. I usually make a preliminary bibliography if my first draft is not my final draft, and I save them on the sire. It's easy, and it seems pretty much the same as Zotero.

Would I give Zotero a try? Probably, but not today.