bits and bobs: sick kid edition

[forestofglory]

*The school year ended for us last Friday. (It still feels very early to me!) Today was supposed to be the kiddos first day of summer camp, but we gave her a covid test this morning since that seems like the safe thing to do, and it came back positive! So no summer camp for her this week. Right now she's hanging out in her room watching minecraft videos and drinking water. She has running nose but not a fever. We are trying to keep her isolated as much as possible.

*in other news I have finally installed Zotero after having been told about it for years. And its great! If you give it a pdf it can mostly figure the title ect! Which is nice when you have pile of pdfs with unhelpful titles. Plus it has tagging! So now my horde of pdfs about Chinese history is much better organized and I can find things more easily. Also I made a pretty bibliography for my most recent fic.

*for June I've decided that I'm going to sew whatever I feel like! I've been working on a quilt top that I have no plans for I just want to make it. Its strip quilt and I had all the strips put together so its going pretty fast. I can't remember when I first started it but probably years ago, so it will be nice to finish it up. (It took me forever to bind the chicken quilt but it's finished now!)

Comments

[mecurtin]

Hmmm, I think I'll try Zotero. I've got Mendeley but I find it doesn't always pull the titles, and its tagging is erratic. I, too, have a pile of PDFs with unhelpful titles, and I keep going down new research rabbit holes.

This weekend it's looking into the background of the new cdrama *Under the Microscope*, which I just finished watching. Remarkably, it's a historical with no big historical figures and not much in the way of romance, it's more social history and bottom-up history than I've seen either East or West.

It's still very much historical fiction, though. But you may want to check it out! if you're interested and need help accessing it, dm me.

[forestofglory]

Zotero is not perfect -- there were some things that I had to go import form google scholar (I guess I could have entered them by hand, but that's too much work) it not very good with pdfs that are just scanned documents.

Under the Microscope sounds interesting!

[mecurtin]

I've DLed Zotero, now I'm trying to figure out how to get it to turn my heap of PDFs into something I can easily sort, tag, etc. What do I do? All the help seems to assume I'm starting with a blank slate ...

[forestofglory]

I just dragged and dropped my pdfs into the central column (It says title, creator on the top) and for most of them it was able to turn them into items with at least some of the meta data.

I hope this helps! Good luck!

[lunabee34]

I hope she gets well soon.

[forestofglory]

Thank you!

[xmarksthespotwhereistand]

I haven't discovered yet how Zotero can pull a title but i have been criminally underusing it (made even worse by the fact that i have to use it for work.)
Love a good fic bibliography.

[forestofglory]

So far I've just dragged and dropped pdfs into Zotero and its mostly been able to pull the titles. I also have the browser plug in which doesn't always work the way I want it to.

[ofearthandstars]

Oof, I hope the little one mends quickly.
The quilting (and the attitude of doing what you feel like) sounds marvelous. I hope it comes out lovely!