Upgrade StorageOnly see the section of an annotation where the tag that is filtered is used
Hey everyone,
First of all, sorry if this is a newbie question, but i'm new to Zotero and, to be honest, to the whole academic research.
I'm trying to achieve this: i've built a long bibliography list, and added .pdfs to the items. I'm now reading through them, and highlighting and making comments to those highlights.
My strategy is, after reading through everything, go into the index of my thesis, and start giving tags to each individual highlight/comment i made in every .pdf. So, a .pdf of mine can have, let's say, a highlight with the tag #tag1 and a highlight with the tag #tag2.
When i create an annotation from all those highlights and comments, it joins (at it should) each highlight and comment into a single annotation.
But when i filter the search for, let's say, #tag1, i get the annotation that has both #tag1 AND #tag2. This is easy to manipulate when i only have one or two highlights/comments on a .pdf. When i have several - and even though i've used note templates html code to make it so that after every highlight/comment the tag is visible - it's really hard to identify the highlights/comments that have the specific tag i've searched for.
So, what i'm trying to understand is if it's possible for the annotation to only make visible the highlights/comments that have the specific tag that i'm using as a filter for search.
This would make my life much easier for citing authors in each chapter of my thesis, since i can search for the highlights/comments i have tagged with the chapter title.
Thank you!
First of all, sorry if this is a newbie question, but i'm new to Zotero and, to be honest, to the whole academic research.
I'm trying to achieve this: i've built a long bibliography list, and added .pdfs to the items. I'm now reading through them, and highlighting and making comments to those highlights.
My strategy is, after reading through everything, go into the index of my thesis, and start giving tags to each individual highlight/comment i made in every .pdf. So, a .pdf of mine can have, let's say, a highlight with the tag #tag1 and a highlight with the tag #tag2.
When i create an annotation from all those highlights and comments, it joins (at it should) each highlight and comment into a single annotation.
But when i filter the search for, let's say, #tag1, i get the annotation that has both #tag1 AND #tag2. This is easy to manipulate when i only have one or two highlights/comments on a .pdf. When i have several - and even though i've used note templates html code to make it so that after every highlight/comment the tag is visible - it's really hard to identify the highlights/comments that have the specific tag i've searched for.
So, what i'm trying to understand is if it's possible for the annotation to only make visible the highlights/comments that have the specific tag that i'm using as a filter for search.
This would make my life much easier for citing authors in each chapter of my thesis, since i can search for the highlights/comments i have tagged with the chapter title.
Thank you!
It's not currently possible to filter notes in any way, if that's what you're asking, and it doesn't really make sense — a note is a document, like a Word document, and you don't really filter documents in that way. You just search them, and that's of course already possible. Tags on annotations added to notes also don't count as tags on the note itself, but if you use a note template to show those in the note text, as you're doing, you can search on them like any other text.
In a future version of Zotero, annotations will be displayed underneath annotations in the main items list, and you'll be able to filter those like any other item. That may be closer to what you're asking for.
My confusion came from the part where you said: "but if you use a note template to show those in the note text, as you're doing, you can search on them like any other text". I think that this means that i have to open the whole note and search it for the specific annotation i want.
This defeats the purpose, since what i was trying to achieve was to tag annotations with the same name as a chapter of my dissertation, and then filter the annotations that have that tag when writing the chapter, so i know exactly what to cite. If i have to search the whole note, which can include lots of differents annotations (at least, the way i do it, the notes are the document where i can see my annotations without opening the article) i lose the laser focus which i wanted to have, since i only wanted to see the annotations i already tagged as relevant to that chapter.