Ditching Zotero for a Text File

An academic developer shares their two-year experience replacing Zotero and other GUI reference managers with a single BibTeX plain-text file. The key insight is that most reference managers are just front-ends for BibTeX anyway, so cutting out the middleman simplifies the workflow. Using BibTeX's built-in fields like 'keywords' and 'note', combined with Unix tools like grep and sort, provides flexible searching and analysis without any dedicated software. Benefits include portability, version control compatibility, and composability with other Unix tools.

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