Highlight tool

aabramson2
Hello!

Longtime Zotero user here. A quick question for the community.

Is there a way to categorize the highlight tool? For example, if I wanted anything highlighted in yellow to mean "background" and anything highlighted in green to mean "source material". Does Zotero have a feature like this?

Thanks!
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited 10 days ago
    What do you mean by "categorize", exactly? What are you trying to accomplish?

    You can't assign labels to annotation colors. Some version of that is a common request, but it's not particularly clear how it would work — within a given document, across an entire library, across all libraries, etc.

    Note that you can always periodically filter all annotations by color for a given document, select them all, and drag them to a tag in the bottom left. You could then filter annotations across your library by that tag, create a note from those annotations, etc.

    It's not currently possible to filter annotations by color from the main library view, though that's planned.
  • FHeimburger
    The Actions and Tags plugin for Zotero lets you add labels to colours and I find that helpful across all my libraries: https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-actions-tags/discussions/211
    https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u13223/zvga9zjarleyzmvxl9su.png
  • FHeimburger
    I use most of these when reviewing prize/grant applications and student work (eg theses, dissertations. Once I have been through the whole thing, highlighting the good stuff, the bad stuff, the formal problems etc., it is then trivially easy to pull it together into a report by filtering for annotation colour/meaning and dragging the examples into a note.
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