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    What is Docear?

    Docear is a unique solution to academic literature management, which helps you organizing, creating, and discovering academic literature. The 3 most distinct features are:

    1. A single-section user-interface that allows the most comprehensive organization of your literature. With Docear, you can sort documents into categories; you can sort annotations (comments, bookmarks, and highlighted text from PDFs) into categories; you can sort annotations within PDFs; and you can view multiple annotations of multiple documents, in multiple categories – at once.

    2. A ‘literature suite concept‘ that combines several tools in a single application (pdf management, reference management, mind mapping, …). This allows you to draft your own papers, assignments, thesis, etc. directly in Docear and copy annotations and references from your collection directly into your draft.

    3. A recommender system that helps you to discover new literature: Docear recommends papers which are free, in full-text, instantly to download, and tailored to your information needs.

    Last, but not least, Docear is free, open source, available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and not evil. In addition, it can be used stand-alone or together with reference managers such as Zotero or Mendeley
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    Discontinued

    Development and support of Docear have been stopped in August 2017. Last version, 1.2, released in December 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website. http://www.docear.org/2017/02/05/docears-online-services-are-down-recommendation-user-registration-backup/

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    • Top positive comment  about 8 years ago • 0 replies
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    docear is great! i love it! if you work with PDFs there is no better tool!

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    docear seems beautiful. really amazing. but it should be more user friendly. i spent two days before i knew how to use it. now i know and will probably switch from zotero.

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    Said about Docear as an alternative

    leostaley Docear is a fork of Freeplane, specializing in bibliography and reference document management.
    Positive comment • almost 5 years ago • as an alternative to  Freeplane Freeplane

    bilLee better for real world (academic references) work
    Positive comment • about 5 years ago • as an alternative to  XMind XMind

    luanaaraujo Best way to organize annotations of a pdf
    Positive comment • over 4 years ago • as an alternative to  M8! - Mind Map M8! - Mind Map

    Categories

    Education & Reference • File Management • Office & Productivity • News & Books

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    • reference-management
    • research
    • pdf

    Lists containing Docear

    Knowledge Management •  Academic Research and Writing Tools •  Research And Citation
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    Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Docear, and it has gotten 69 likes

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    Docear was added to AlternativeTo by Chaolternative on Mar 26, 2012 and this page was last updated Jul 15, 2020.

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