Highlighting with notes

carandol

It would be lovely to be able to highlight parts of an online text and attach a note (much as Diigo does). If these were then saved locally with a snapshot document, it would be possible to annotate documents in a much more useful way.

noksagt

If you make a web snapshot, you can already highlight it & add notes. The paradigm is to keep the original content and the annotations separate. I'm not sure I see the advantage of marking up & then saving rather than saving and then marking up...

sybille

This is possible already. See:
http://www.zotero.org/documentation/annotation_screencast

Annotation and highlighting does not work with pdf files or word processing documents, even when these are opened in a browser window. However, it is possible to attach notes (as opposed to sticky-note annotations) to a bibliography entry along with a pdf file or word processing document, and to view the notes while viewing the document in the browser window.

There are some other screencast tutorials that demonstrate Zotero's features and are worth checking out, too.

carandol

Oops, I just found out it's possible to highlight and annotate snapshot files. I feel *such* a fool! :-)

sybille

No worries, Zotero has a lot of features can it can take some time to discover them all. :)

chris80

Thanks for the links to the tutorial. That helped to get to know what zotero is capable of. But unfortunately, when trying it myself (marking and adding notes) on the screen shots I made it did not do anything despite following the instructions. Might that have anything to do with my settings? Does anybody has an explanation for that?
Thank you very much.