is it possible to point Zotero to a local dir with papers, or am I forced to import documents into it?

Where are you accessing Zotero V7? My understanding is that it is currently V6.[1]

[1] https://www.zotero.org/download/

Thanks! I'll try it out

I love zotero. The combination of annotation, highlights, document management and a healthy plug-in ecosystem are just killer for me.

It feels a bit dated sometimes, but I'm yet to find anything that comes close.

It looks a lot nicer after the recent design update!

I use Zotero and really like it, especially when working with others. This was the first thing that came into my mind on this thread.

IIRC, pdfjs is used by Google also, and was based on Foxit? ? Does anyone know?

PDF.js came out of Mozilla, not Foxit.

Yes, but I think Mozilla may have started with code from Foxit.

The PDFium plugin that was part of Chrome was based on C++ code from Foxit.

PDFjs was written in JS from day one, and (as far as I know) was not based on any previous PDF reader.

Maybe that's what I was thinking of. Thanks.

BTW, I didn't mean they necessarily used the actual Foxit code, but it was a starting point maybe reimplemented in JS.

In no sense is PDF.js related to Foxit except that they are both PDF readers.