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This looks really nice. Zotero has never stuck with me for some reason but I last used it a few years ago. I'll try again.

One problem with this type of service is that there's usually a huge jump from unpaid to paid, but the jump to the lowest paid tier of Zotero lets you pay $20/year for 2 GB of storage. I can handle that. I have more difficulty with the $15/month and $90/year and such paid tiers. Even at $20/year, that comes to $100 after five years for what is largely a donation to support development.



>...comes to $100 ... for what is largely a donation to support development.

That's not that bad for a useful product, is it?


No, but I'm saying it's enough. The $90/year service comes to $450 over five years, and that's definitely too much.


One probably non-obvious thing is that the $100/yr ish unlimited storage tier includes everything you do as a user including shared libraries.

So if you have a group of people working together in a group library, one shared library subscription covers all of them. It doesn't take many people to make this worthwhile.

And as you say, it's a good way to support a great project. I do it even when I'm not really using the software.


> I do it even when I'm not really using the software.

I'll drop a one-time donation of $10 or $18 or something largely independent of my use - or even if I don't use it at all. I don't treat it as a purchase, though I can understand that others do.


According to https://www.zotero.org/storage their current pricing is:

    300 MB      Free
    2 GB        $20/year (equal to $1.67 per month)
    6 GB        $60/year (equal to $5 per month)
    Unlimited   $120/year (equal to $10 per month)


You can use just the metadata sync by them and sync the actual files with e.g. webdav or syncthing or whatever. That way it's free.


If I use it, I'll pay them. I can use the savings from all the VC-subsidized software I don't have to pay for.




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