Mattis van 't SchipTrying to switch to Linux for all work-related matters. Question for those who came long before me: do you write all your work in LibreOffice Writer? Anyone have any experience with using its Zotero plug-in? And does saving a LibreOffice file in Word-format (docx/doc) for certain purposes (e.g. for feedback from colleagues) work well?
Kaspar Rosager Ludvigsen@mattis I have used LibreOffice and its parents for many years before switching to LaTeX, and yes, it works well for colleague feedback. They might need to write into the document directly, but that should not pose a problem.
@mattis Here I mean that Word easily opens any LibreOffice document, and that you can easily convert it back if need be (or just always write in docx while awaiting feedback). As for Zotero, worked fine last time I tried.
@KasparRosagerLudvigsen ah, that sounds perfect! I'm sure I'll find a good method. Thanks!
lecroix74@mattis there are more office suites available,so maybe the best thing for you would be trying them all. WPS, onlyoffice,Libreoffice. I'm sure you'll find what you need
daschw@mattis In my experience OnlyOffice is usually a little better in terms of MS Office docx compatibility. However, both LibreOffice and OnlyOffice are awesome. Both have zotero plugins that work quite well, but especially the bibliography has been a pain point for me when collaborating with colleagues that use MS Office.
Patrick Zauner 
@mattis I really recommend Markdown for just writing things down as it is way less distracting. You then can convert it easily to LaTeX and pdf with pandoc. Regarding Zotero I wanted to check out the integration in obsidian and logseq which seems to somehow exist.
https://gizn.org/notes/2023/01/20/how-to-connect-zotero-with-obsidian.html
https://medium.com/@alexandraphelan/an-academic-workflow-zotero-obsidian-56bf918d51ab
And new for logseq: (but logseq is less suited to create new documents and relies heavily on bullet points for formatting)
https://medium.com/@pkmbeth/how-to-use-the-zotero-logseq-integration-57f1fe07df1e
How to connect Zotero with Obsidian
I use Zotero for reference management and Obsidian for note taking. There is a whole religion around note taking with concepts such as “Second Brain,” “Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)” and “Zettelkasten.” I find that a bit too much but enjoy the software, it saves everything in clean .md files in your file system (makes it future proof, you can change software later on and still have all your notes) and supports wiki style linking between notes. I use Zotero simply because it is the best reference manager I have found, it is also free and open source if you are in to that.
MKSinSASaving #LibreOffice documents in #MSOffice formats work very well for most applications. Haven't seen much loss in transition except for more complex embedded formatting and formulas. I use #Writer for all my docs and #Calc for spreadsheets.
For feedback, of course comments work same as in Office and for real-time editing usually upload to Google Drive and shared with editing capability.
Have never used #Zotero.
スパックマン クリス1) Have used SO => OO => LibreOffice for decades for teacher stuff (lesson plans, readings, worksheets, tests) and rarely had any issues in LO Writer wrt sharing or opening in MS Word. These days, probably zero.
Also co-authored a few papers.
2) Sorry, have not used Zotero.
3) Modern versions of MS Office support the ODT format, so you don't necessarily have to use / convert to DOCX for sharing with MSO users.
If you share often, you can set DOCX as the default for LO Writer docs.
Felipe L. Sologuren G.@mattis Hi. I write all big documents in LO, because my mainly stuff is just markdown.
LO works very good with doc/docx. Sometimes, depending on features added by other people, diagramation would suffer a bit, but I never lost content. Also take care of fonts, because sometimes there are not good replacement of propietary ones.
If you wrote a doc from scratch and send as a final as PDF, is perfect.
@mattis * I don't know about Zotero plugin