Search Results - Notes?

I've tried searching the discussion forum for details on this and have found what only seem to be outdated responses (2007, 2008 posts).

What I'd like to be able to do is to do a search for any notes that have specific text in them and only get those notes in the results - not the parent or sibling items. This would allow me to create notes for items in regard to a specific project and then find all notes associated with that project. i.e. any notes taken in relation to a literature review for a particular manuscript have the text 1003CompLit; then a search for that "1003CompLit" returns all of those notes. Ideally, I'd like to then be able to export that search to text - to have a nice, tidy output of all notes taken.

Is this currently possible?

-cmd
  • edited March 6, 2010
    Yes. Try this: create a saved search on [tag]="1003CompLit" and [item type]="note"'; select all records (Command=A on a mac); drag-and-drop selected notes into word.

    [edit] Titles of sources do not copy this way--it would be nice if there was an option to include them. Export of found notes to text would be nice too.

    You can also use reports and print or save as PDF--then you'll get the parent item info as well. Make sure to set "report.includeAllChildItems" to false in hidden preferences.

    By the way, I wasn't able to find in Zotero Documentation anything about notes drag-and-drop.
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