Zotero for Android pen annotation help

HamishBrookes

I recently purchased a Lenovo android tablet with stylus once I heard the the official Zotero app for Android was released.

I want to make a highlight and then quickly tap it to make a note using the tablet's handwriting to text functionality. Unfortunately I require my annotations to be stored as plain text for the rest of my workflow.

It seems that in order to open the annotation Window, I first need to deselect the highlight too and then press the annotation. Is that correct? This seems to be quite a bit of friction when once is taking dozens of annotations. If it were even just possible to toggle using the button on the stylus that would be sufficient but I can't seem to find any option like that.

Very excited to incorporate this into my workflow and I appreciate any insights, thank you.

HamishBrookes

Bumping this issue.

To be clear I want to use the highlight tool, and with it still selected tap highlighted text to open the window for annotation entry without having to go back to the palette to deselect the highlight tool.

This is driving me a little crazy and seems like something I might just be missing? Selecting text without a tool selected and making highlight from that is a little closer to what I need, but the text selection is cumbersome in that mode.

Even just an option to set a button press on the stylus would be a good enough solution. Am I doing something wrong or not providing enough info? @dstillman

kareliot

I agree. This is (one of) the main reason why I am not using zotero on my supernote.
There seems to have been no progress on the bug report over on github:
https://github.com/zotero/zotero-android/issues/175

dstillman

As noted in the issue, this was a bug in the Android version of the PDF framework we use on Android and iOS, but they've since addressed it, so we should be able to fix this soon.