Upgrade StorageClickable links in annotation comments (annotation→annotation, annotation→item/pdf)
It is currently possible to add links between notes and from notes to items, pdfs, and annotations (see, e.g., https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/128771/hyperlinks-to-pdf-annotations , https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/102173/linking-to-another-note-from-within-the-text-of-a-note): direct link copying is available via plugins and is also planned for an upcoming version (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/506667/#Comment_506667 , https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/474353/#Comment_474353). The Better Notes plugin (https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-better-notes) extends this functionality.
But, on annotations, even if we can paste text that contains a URI, this is not clickable.
So:
- note→note : works
- note→annotation : works
- annotation→anything : does not work, because annotation comments don't render links as clickable
The only two solutions I've found are:
1. Use "Add Note from Annotations": since we obtain a note, we can now add arbitrary links to the note. This, however, is not a substitute, because running "Add Note from Annotations" again would create a new note, requiring users to manually merge or re-edit it each time.
2. Use this pair of scripts from Actions and Tags: https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-actions-tags/discussions/296 . It does work, but the steps are laborious and, for me, error-prone (they require copying the target annotation to the clipboard, adding a highlight in the source PDF, and using a right-click "Add Link" action to bind them ---see link above for details).
Is there any alternative? If there's no current alternative, I'd like to request that Zotero render clickable URIs in annotation comments, which would unlock "annotation <-> annotation" and "annotation <-> note" linking natively ---especially since the underlying Zotero URIs already exist and work perfectly.
But, on annotations, even if we can paste text that contains a URI, this is not clickable.
So:
- note→note : works
- note→annotation : works
- annotation→anything : does not work, because annotation comments don't render links as clickable
The only two solutions I've found are:
1. Use "Add Note from Annotations": since we obtain a note, we can now add arbitrary links to the note. This, however, is not a substitute, because running "Add Note from Annotations" again would create a new note, requiring users to manually merge or re-edit it each time.
2. Use this pair of scripts from Actions and Tags: https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-actions-tags/discussions/296 . It does work, but the steps are laborious and, for me, error-prone (they require copying the target annotation to the clipboard, adding a highlight in the source PDF, and using a right-click "Add Link" action to bind them ---see link above for details).
Is there any alternative? If there's no current alternative, I'd like to request that Zotero render clickable URIs in annotation comments, which would unlock "annotation <-> annotation" and "annotation <-> note" linking natively ---especially since the underlying Zotero URIs already exist and work perfectly.