How to re-create the Citavi workflow with Zettlr?

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I am on a quest for the most 
frictionless academic PDF management, annotation, knowledge organization
 and paper drafting workflow. Citavi offers this in a way that is 
unsurpassed until now by any reference/annotation manager. But Citavi is
 proprietary software and still pretty much locked inside windows 
(despite the current efforts to go to the cloud).
I'm
 looking for ways to re-create the seamless Citavi workflow with open 
source tools. Zotero is the obvious point of departure for reference 
management. But Zotero annotation capabilities lag seriously behind. 
Zettlr seems here a very interesting option, but it is still very clunky
 in comparison to the way things work in Citavi. There is no easy sync 
with the reference library (a complex manual export/import is needed). 
There is no link with the highlighted passages. There is no way to 
quickly create notes and move them around. While it seems that the 
possibilities are there in terms of software, the connection hasn't been
 made in my mind. It would thus take about 3-4 times the amount of time 
to replicate a Citavi workflow, and still imperfectly.
Does anyone have any suggestions on a better solution/workflow? Thanks!
Sarkari job

Edited by manas54 - 12 May 21 at 6:24AM

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manas54 Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 23 Mar 21 Location: indore Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote manas54 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: How to re-create the Citavi workflow with Zettlr? Posted: 23 Mar 21 at 8:56AM
	I am on a quest for the most frictionless academic PDF management, annotation, knowledge organization and paper drafting workflow. Citavi offers this in a way that is unsurpassed until now by any reference/annotation manager. But Citavi is proprietary software and still pretty much locked inside windows (despite the current efforts to go to the cloud). I'm looking for ways to re-create the seamless Citavi workflow with open source tools. Zotero is the obvious point of departure for reference management. But Zotero annotation capabilities lag seriously behind. Zettlr seems here a very interesting option, but it is still very clunky in comparison to the way things work in Citavi. There is no easy sync with the reference library (a complex manual export/import is needed). There is no link with the highlighted passages. There is no way to quickly create notes and move them around. While it seems that the possibilities are there in terms of software, the connection hasn't been made in my mind. It would thus take about 3-4 times the amount of time to replicate a Citavi workflow, and still imperfectly. Does anyone have any suggestions on a better solution/workflow? Thanks! Sarkari job Edited by manas54 - 12 May 21 at 6:24AM