Tagged Annotations: Upon Using Create Note from Annotations, Tags Aren't Also Created?

cabin-chair

Hi,

I can highlight a sentence and add tags to the highlight.

So, for example, if I highlight this sentence:

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard

and add the tags

Kennedy; 1962; Space Race

Upon running

CREATE NOTE FROM ANNOTATIONS

I DO get the quote in the extracted annotations note and in the pane at the right - but it seems that the tags ASSOCIATED with the highlights are not there?

For example, let's say there were 100 highlights in a PDF and there were 30 with the tag 1962, after extracting the highlights via Create Note from Annotation, how can I identify these 30 highlights have the tag 1962?

Put another way - if we tag highlights / annotations, upon extracting the highlights via Notes Created from Annotation, how can we ALSO have the use of the tags that we've added to the highlights once extracted?

Many thanks,

Cab

DonnaCoxBaker

I am seeing a box in the bottom left of the PDF Reader screen that lets me filter to the pages where a tag was added to a comment.

cabin-chair

Hi Donna,

Ah! You're right! What about the annotations extracted AS NOTES?

So rather than IN the PDF itself, generating a COLLECTION of your highlights in a separate format - called a Note (it seems).


https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/zotero/extracting-annotations

You can extract these annotations as notes in two ways.

From the right-hand corner, click on the notebook icon, then on the plus sign and Add Item Note from Annotations

or

From the Zotero Library, right-click on the reference, and then select Add Note from Annotations.

(This is from that link - it's about 3/4 of the way down the page.)


The highlights and annotations all list in a "Note" when I follow the above, but there's not Tags accompanying them.

While the highlights themselves are REALLY useful collected like that, there's a down side: for me, I do a LOT of my thinking IN the tags, marking up lines of text as things occur to me while I read.

Getting all highlights together in a single file is REALLY the goal BUT...without the tags I kind of have to...go and re-read the whole file again.

Even if i DID do that...I'd probably just wind up...TAGGING the extracted highlights all again by hand?

I'm hoping there was some way to extract highlights and annotations into a Note AND...have them also show the tags associated with them.

How does all that sound?

Sincerely,

Cab

mjthoraval

The documentation you are looking for is here.

Specifically for your example on highlights, you could use the following template in extensions.zotero.annotations.noteTemplates.highlight:
<p>{{highlight}} {{citation}} {{comment}}{{if tags}} <b>#{{tags join=' #'}}</b>{{endif}}</p>

For more complex templates, you may look at the Better Notes plugin

cabin-chair

WOW! There's a LOT of flexibility and power to the design! Thank you VERY much for the terrific EXAMPLE! That kind of illustration is so valuable. MANY THANKS! :))))))))))))))!!!!!!!!!!!

DonnaCoxBaker

Wow from me, too! Thanks, Cab!

DonnaCoxBaker

Oops, I meant thanks, @mjthoraval!

JoSimister

I really wanted this! Thank you so much.