Learning Becomes Her

Before even starting my PhD program, my advisor-to-be encouraged me to adopt a reference manager. Her reference manager of choice was Zotero , a free desktop manager with browser extensions available. She recommended this over EndNotes or RefWorks because it wasn't university dependent and I would be able to start building a repository that could continue with me throughout my career. I had started using it, but, for many reasons, I found it more of a hindrance than a help and I used it sparingly. Then a colleague sent me an email (also before starting my program) to a series of blog posts by PhD2Published entitled "My Love Affair with Mendeley or How Mendeley is Basically My Brain" Parts 1 , 2 , and 3 . It sounded interesting and more convenient to use than Zotero, so I downloaded the desktop manager. Luckily, it syncs with Zotero, so I didn't lose any of the references I had already collected. Even though I downloaded it shortly after reading the blog po...