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I like the idea, but why would I use this instead of Mendeley or EndNote, for example? Especially since Mendeley is free, and has a word plugin for writing and referencing.

Mendeley is owned by Elsevier so they’re likely to continue user-hostile things like locking down your data to prevent interoperability:

https://eighty-twenty.org/2018/06/13/mendeley-encrypted-db

Which is one reason I switched to using Zotero years ago...

Yeah, it’s sad how a single company’s name can destroy so much goodwill. They’re not Oracle but they’re not far behind.

Polar is better for managing reading vs managing citations.

I'm still trying to figure out if Polar should implement citation management or focus on managing reading of existing material.

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