Zotero Keyboard Shortcuts?

Aporias

I use the notes feature of Zotero extensively for PDF annotations, citations, and notes.

Is there a feature I am missing that permits keyboard shortcuts to be added to the various menus in the Note Editor? Possibly an addon? Or, could I please ask for this feature? Very frequently I am using the mouse and menus to format text. Add bulleted text, headings, change text to blue, red, etc. All of the functions that are under the Format Text, Highlight Text, Clear Formatting, icon menus in the note editor. This becomes very time consuming and would be significantly mitigated with keyboard shortcuts.

Thank you for the consideration

Aporias

Hello, I asked ChatGPT to help me write a plugin in Zotero 7 and it produced a version that gave an error on an attempt to install to Zotero. I told ChatGPT about the error, and it apologized and said he was going to re-write the code to be more compatible with (some words).

ChatGPT even compiles all the necessary code files into an ZIP for me.

Anyway, me and ChatGPT are on version 5 and still are getting this error upon install:

The add-on "B:\OneDrive\Zotero Plugins ChatGPT\zotero-shortcut-plugin-v7 Version 5.zip" could not be installed. It may be incompatible with this version of Zotero.


Can anyone with knowledge of plugin creation take a look at what might be wrong with ChatGPTs coding? If so, thank you much. (I still can't believe ChatGPT did all this work with 5-7 instructions / prompts. Crazy)




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import zipfile
import os




Here is the code:


# Create plugin directory and files
plugin_dir = 'zotero-shortcut-plugin'
os.makedirs(plugin_dir, exist_ok=True)

# File contents
manifest_json = '''{
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "Zotero Shortcut Plugin",
"version": "1.0",
"description": "Add keyboard shortcuts to Zotero's note editor.",
"author": "Your Name",
"applications": {
"gecko": {
"id": "zotero-shortcut-plugin@example.com",
"strict_min_version": "7.0"
}
},
"background": {
"scripts": ["background.js"]
},
"permissions": [
"activeTab"
],
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": [""],
"js": ["content.js"]
}
]
}
'''

background_js = '''// Background script to initialize the plugin
'''

content_js = '''(function() {
window.addEventListener('load', function(e) {
ZoteroShortcutPlugin.init();
}, false);

var ZoteroShortcutPlugin = {
init: function() {
window.addEventListener('keydown', this.handleKeyPress, false);
},

handleKeyPress: function(event) {
// Shortcuts for Format Text menu
if (event.ctrlKey && event.altKey) {
switch (event.key) {
case 'F1':
ZoteroShortcutPlugin.triggerMenu('zotero-note-editor-menu-format-text', 0); // First submenu item
break;
case 'F2':
ZoteroShortcutPlugin.triggerMenu('zotero-note-editor-menu-format-text', 1); // Second submenu item
break;
case 'F3':
ZoteroShortcutPlugin.triggerMenu('zotero-note-editor-menu-format-text', 2); // Third submenu item
break;
case 'F4':
ZoteroShortcutPlugin.triggerMenu('zotero-note-editor-menu-format-text', 3); // Fourth submenu item
break;
// Add more cases as needed for other submenu items
}
}

// Shortcuts for Text Color menu
if (event.altKey && !event.ctrlKey) {
switch (event.key) {
case 'F1':
ZoteroShortcutPlugin.triggerMenu('zotero-note-editor-menu-text-color', 0); // Red
break;
case 'F2':
ZoteroShortcutPlugin.triggerMenu('zotero-note-editor-menu-text-color', 1); // Orange
break;
case 'F3':
ZoteroShortcutPlugin.triggerMenu('zotero-note-editor-menu-text-color', 2); // Yellow
break;
case 'F4':
ZoteroShortcutPlugin.triggerMenu('zotero-note-editor-menu-text-color', 3); // Green
break;
case 'F5':
ZoteroShortcutPlugin.triggerMenu('zotero-note-editor-menu-text-color', 4); // Purple
break;
case 'F6':
ZoteroShortcutPlugin.triggerMenu('zotero-note-editor-menu-text-color', 5); // Magenta
break;
case 'F7':
ZoteroShortcutPlugin.triggerMenu('zotero-note-editor-menu-text-color', 6); // Blue
break;
case 'F8':
ZoteroShortcutPlugin.triggerMenu('zotero-note-editor-menu-text-color', 7); // Gray
break;
// Add more cases as needed for other submenu items
}
}
},

triggerMenu: function(menuId, itemIndex) {
let menu = document.getElementById(menuId);
if (menu) {
let items = menu.querySelectorAll('menuitem');
if (items[itemIndex]) {
items[itemIndex].click();
}
}
}
};
})();
'''

# Write files
with open(os.path.join(plugin_dir, 'manifest.json'), 'w') as f:
f.write(manifest_json)

with open(os.path.join(plugin_dir, 'background.js'), 'w') as f:
f.write(background_js)

with open(os.path.join(plugin_dir, 'content.js'), 'w') as f:
f.write(content_js)

# Zip the plugin directory
zip_filename = 'zotero-shortcut-plugin-v7.zip'
with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_filename, 'w') as zipf:
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(plugin_dir):
for file in files:
file_path = os.path.join(root, file)
zipf.write(file_path, os.path.relpath(file_path, plugin_dir))

zip_filename

adamsmith

The add-on doesn't seem particularly close to being functional, I'm afraid (not even the manifest.json is right, let alone anything about the rest of the add-on structure).

The note editor does take standard markdown formatting (though that won't help you with font color, say).

Aporias

Ok. Thank you for letting me know

Aporias

@adamsmith Wow this link you provided iis fantastic. Thank yoou