It's been eld since I terminal utilised EndNote as my meaning manager, but when I did, digit of the features I understood most was its consort Palm app, allowing me to search, add to, and sync my EndNote accumulation from my Palm Tungsten organiser (something added I haven't utilised for years). Having every the sources in my credit accumulation at my fingertips was unbelievably useful, especially as I tracked downbound newborn sources at libraries and bookstores. Remember, this was in the life before ubiquitous wifi or smartphones.
Even now, there are whatever nowadays when I requirement to countenance up a citation—or add a newborn digit to my Zotero collection—and I don't hit primed admittance to a computer. What I necessary was a Zotero app for my phone. I'm not the exclusive digit who desired much a thing. Avram city spent months "exhorting others to indite clients for Zotero for platforms same Android and iOS" and when no digit did, he wrote his own. Introducing Zandy, a Zotero app for Android devices.
If you ingest Zotero, chances are you've already encountered the impact of Zandy's developer. Many of the Zotero translators—the effectuation by which Zotero grabs and interprets the citations for online book articles and websites—were cursive by Avram Lyon. As conception of Zotero's unstoppered maker accord of developers, city has prefabricated the maker for Zandy acquirable for liberated on GitHub, where you crapper also ready road of issues and features city is employed on. Or, you crapper hold support Zandy's utilization by finance in the $3.99 version on the Android marketplace. It's worth mentioning that Zandy has no authorised unification with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, the bag of Zotero. Because Zotero has an open API, whatever developer crapper command the inexplicit functions of the Zotero server—which helps to create a flush ecosystem of tools and applications around the service.
The underway edition of Zandy (v. 1.0.2) allows you to (1) enter with your Zotero accumulation finished Zotero's API, (2) holograph finished your collections and items, (3) modify whatever of the field fields of existing items, and (4) add newborn items by manually incoming in the info (manually, as anti to, say, scanning a barcode, which is the important duty of the Scanner for Zotero app). For more aggregation most Zandy, analyse discover the Zandy User Guide.
While the underway primeval edition of Zandy already does most of the things I woman from my older EndNote Palm app, the forthcoming feature ordered is modify more exciting. city is employed on meliorate feeding and intelligent of items, as substantially as programme enhancements. (Right now, for example, it's not country when a sync has been completed). He's also employed on Zandy's adhesion handling. (Zandy 1.0.2 exclusive syncs the component info and not whatever attachments, snapshots, or notes related with the item.) Zandy exclusive entireness on Android 2.2 and up, but city would same to modify the glasses so that it entireness on Android 1.6 and up—greatly expanding the sort of users who could ingest the app. (And, inaugural up the existence of using Zandy on unmoving Nooks that separate Android 2.1.)
The 1.1 promulgation of Zandy is reaching up, and you crapper road Zandy's advancement towards this milestone on GitHub. city is already employed on plans for the 1.2 release as well—sure signs that Zandy will exclusive acquire to be more coercive as a artefact to control and ingest your Zotero assemblage on-the-go.
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