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  Alexander DeLuca

  09 March 2009 | 05:04

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  I like Connotea very much:

  http://connotea/user/docalex/

  BUT it is just so painfully slow as to be almost impossible to use enjoyably. Whenever I give someone a link to a tag page on Connotea, I have to tell them in the email, “Connotea is slow – be patient” – which is sort of a drag.

  Cite-U-Like is fast, for sure. But it lacks an Entity Describer – which feature is the only thing that continues to bind me to Connotea.

  Now, my problem maybe because I have too many references stored on Connotea (the result of experiments in mass-uploading years of references collected into Endnote) – Hmmm, perhaps I should try deleting entire topics I’m not actively working with now, and performance might improve?

  I’d be interested in other peoples experiences with Connotea – especially with maintaining large libraries on Connotea.

  It is a shame, because Connotea is a good idea; I like it better than Cite-U-Like, except it is too damn slow. The speed problem is just killer. And no one at Nature seems to care enough to invest the resources to fix that problem.

  The “new server” has made no perceptible difference, service has not improved in my experience.

  I like working with Zotero and Connotea… but Cite-U-Like is beckoning.

  ..alex…
  doctordeluca@gmail.com
  Alexander DeLuca, M.D., MPH

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  William Gunn

  13 March 2009 | 04:32

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  Yes, it’s unfortunate that they’ve not prioritized Connotea, letting Citeulike win in terms of sheer usability. If you’re looking for a new bookmarking service, you might also like to give Mendeley a try. It has more of an explicit focus on discovery than Connotea, and the desktop client is cool because you can add PDFs to it and it will extract the citation metadata for you, so you don’t have to look the articles up in pubmed to bookmark them if you’ve already got them saved somewhere. Sometimes it has trouble with older scanned PDFs, though. The profile pages are a cool feature, too. Here’s mine: William Gunn

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  Amy Price

  08 August 2009 | 19:56

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  Hi William,

  I am going through my formal PhD proposal interview requirements and have found I am supposed to be looking at specific journals related to ‘my industry’ not sure where I fit so was trying to make sense of my PDFs only to find I have collected and read 6200 of them…sigh. Mendeley is amazing!!!! Thanks so much for mentioning this…I have been finding everything by windows or google search…this is a huge improvement…

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  William Gunn

  14 August 2009 | 16:53

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  Thanks, Amy. I’m glad you’re finding Mendeley so helpful. If you need help with anything, just let me know.