Url2cite
Learning and science
citation tool for academic writing
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Design: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Hover popups on references are nice
From 1 comment
This is nice, thank you ;) I love the pop-up that appears when hovering on a reference. An internet archive integration would be nice!
Gehinnn on HN
Caching citations as JSON makes manual fixes easy
From 1 comment
Each citation is added to a formatted JSON file when it is first seen. After this it stays the same. This means you can fix the citation data by hand by just editing the JSON…
phiresky on HN
Objections
Metadata is often incomplete or wrong and hard to fix
From 1 comment
Pandoc + Zotero + better-bibtex user here. This is indeed nice, thanks. One possible problem I see (but I am not sure what could be done to solve it) is that often metadata are…
Schiphol on HN
Floating footnote popups are too transparent to read
From 1 comment
The floating footnotes need to be way more opaque, they're unreadable as is. Reverse citation would also be interesting feature to have - on gwern.net, I use https://ricon.dev/…
gwern on HN
GitHub repo descriptions include boilerplate text
From 1 comment
You should exclude “... Contribute to <user>/<repo> development by creating an account on GitHub...” from referenced Github repo description.
app4soft on HN
Requests
Internet Archive integration
From 1 comment
This is nice, thank you ;) I love the pop-up that appears when hovering on a reference. An internet archive integration would be nice!
Gehinnn on HN
Reverse citation links
From 1 comment
The floating footnotes need to be way more opaque, they're unreadable as is. Reverse citation would also be interesting feature to have - on gwern.net, I use https://ricon.dev/…
gwern on HN
Questions
What happens if linked content disappears?
From 1 comment
What happens if the link content dies? Zotero pulls down a full text copy of the document and saves it, IIRC, and I no longer trust URLs on the web to stay up for any period of…
hlieberman on HN
Can one citation cache be shared across papers?
From 1 comment
Thanks for this. Just a quick follow-up: if I use the same reference in different papers, do I need to make those changes we were discussing on each per-paper json file, or is…
Schiphol on HN
Alternatives named
Zotero
From 2 comments
Pandoc + Zotero + better-bibtex user here. This is indeed nice, thanks. One possible problem I see (but I am not sure what could be done to solve it) is that often metadata are…
Schiphol on HNfrom the page: > All citation data is cached (permanently) as bibtex as well as CSL to citation-cache.json. This is both to improve performance and to make sure references stay…
detaro on HN
Wayback Machine links
From 1 comment
You can always use Wayback Machine links
rahuldottech on HN
ricon.dev
From 1 comment
The floating footnotes need to be way more opaque, they're unreadable as is. Reverse citation would also be interesting feature to have - on gwern.net, I use https://ricon.dev/…
gwern on HN