Viewing all annotations across my library

selinarpaci

Hey there,

I loved that I could annotate my files and tag them! I was not aware of this, and it is amazing!

Is there any way to see, group, and filter all my annotations across all the PDFs? This would help me with my greatest problem in literature reviews! :)

I can see my annotations per specific files-
1. I would have loved to be able to search through all my files like I can do for a specific file, and
2. export all my annotations in a table format with columns: Annotated text, citation, Tags (separated by semicolons)
2a. or view all my citations in a bigger view
3. See my tags also on the annotations export (at the file level or whole library level)

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Thank you very much.

dstillman

Annotations will be displayed under attachments in the items list in a future version, and you'll be able to perform searches across them.

19frank12

Just commenting to second this. Tagging annotations, e.g. with a tag for a topic or a thesis across different sources / documents is very useful. But to really make it a booster for productivity, I would need to be able to pull up all my annotations for a given tag. Say, I assign the tag "assignment chapter 1" to annotations , I would wish for a way to filter and view all annotations for this tag across several documents.

Once available, a feature like this will prove incredibly useful.

dstillman

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/123884/available-for-beta-testing-annotations-in-the-items-list