Extracting annotations by a single color

dstillman Zotero Team
This discussion was created from comments split from: "Extract Annotations" is not showing as an option?.
  • cvpage
    Hi, I understand this Zotfile feature has been disabled with the update, but this new annotation extraction cannot extract notes by a single color, which has thrown me off as this was the main function I was using Zotfile for. What should I do? Thank you!
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    @cvpage: Filter by a color in the PDF reader sidebar, do a Select All, and add the annotations to a note.
  • cvpage
    I have over 500 articles to do this for, so this is not a plausible way for me to go about this when Zotfile automated the process completely. So I'm just out of luck?
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    Can you explain what you want to do, exactly?
  • cvpage
    I'm doing a qual/quant analysis project and was using color highlights as a coding scheme (different colors meaning different codes within text documents). With Zotfiles annotation extractor and Zoteros tagging system I have been able to pretty efficiently group different sets of articles and analyze the color coded annotations.

    For example, I could group together all the red highlights for a specific set of tagged articles to compare. Or all the purple highlights for my entire population.

    I hope that makes sense! My colleague is using MAXQDA to do the same thing, but I honestly liked the system I had come up with better.

    Thanks!
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    So you want to create a single standalone note from selected items — like the Create Note from Annotations option — but with the ability to limit it to specific colors?

    I could see us adding a dialog to that option that would allow filtering by color or tag.
  • hsiangyu_wong Zotero Team
    @cvpage

    Maybe something like this: https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-better-notes/issues/85#issuecomment-1210063595 could help?
  • quichea
    @hsiangyu_wong

    This link you connected to looks like what i need.

    Apologies for the newb question but where exactly would I type this code to extract the Zotero notes into another Zotero note?
  • hsiangyu_wong Zotero Team
    @quichea

    Could you please open an issue in the plugin repo: https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-better-notes/issues
    and we could discuss it there? Sharing images would be easier on GitHub.
  • cvpage
    @dstillman So is there an option that this dialog option will happen within the near future? Can you be frank with me so I know if I need to move the entirety of my project to a completely different software or not?

    What is the point of an update if it makes useful plug ins obsolete? In my opinion, the plug in and other PDF readers were a-okay while Zoteros option for these are seriously lacking in utility. Why fix something that isn't broken?

    Sorry for my frustration but this has been a project I have poured a ton of time and effort into for well over a year. I was just about to finish up, but now it looks like I'm starting all over with a different software because Zotero wanted a PDF reader. Wonderful.
  • adamsmith
    this has been a project I have poured a ton of time and effort into for well over a year. I was just about to finish up,
    You can download old versions of Zotero and Zotfile if this is about finishing a project. dstillman would be able to say for sure, but I wouldn't wait on a specific Zotero feature to land. Timing on such things is always uncertain.
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