Upgrade StorageIdea: Note splitting
Hi everybody!
(TLDR: command-idea for Zotero's note-system in which highlighted text can be turned into seperate item-notes)
A little context:
I use Zotero as an archive of both sources and notes and so there is a TON of item-notes in my library. What I will do is 1) create an item and 2) make one large item-note in which are all the notes from that source, which will be seperated with a title [Page nr - summary-title]. I also include footnotes and commentaries. When I'm done annotating, I will start "spitting" up the big note into a collection of small item-notes. The title is important because Zotero's interface automatically arranges the notes numerically, keeping things tidy, plus it allows me to "relate" them to footnotes from other sources or if it reminds me of something I've read earlier - all of which helps me connect the scholarship on various topics, which in turn helps my thinking and writing process.
However, the problem is that it is rather clunky: I have to click ctrl+shift+o to get a new Item-note, and then copy-paste - so there is a lot of hot-key action!
Now, the question:
Could there be an easier way to do this method? Say, you highlight a paragraph you which to turn into a seperate item-note, right-click and get the option?
I am not a coder so I would not know the first thing of how to impliment such a function, but I just wanted to throw this in there as an idea for Zotero's developers or for the community in general.
(TLDR: command-idea for Zotero's note-system in which highlighted text can be turned into seperate item-notes)
A little context:
I use Zotero as an archive of both sources and notes and so there is a TON of item-notes in my library. What I will do is 1) create an item and 2) make one large item-note in which are all the notes from that source, which will be seperated with a title [Page nr - summary-title]. I also include footnotes and commentaries. When I'm done annotating, I will start "spitting" up the big note into a collection of small item-notes. The title is important because Zotero's interface automatically arranges the notes numerically, keeping things tidy, plus it allows me to "relate" them to footnotes from other sources or if it reminds me of something I've read earlier - all of which helps me connect the scholarship on various topics, which in turn helps my thinking and writing process.
However, the problem is that it is rather clunky: I have to click ctrl+shift+o to get a new Item-note, and then copy-paste - so there is a lot of hot-key action!
Now, the question:
Could there be an easier way to do this method? Say, you highlight a paragraph you which to turn into a seperate item-note, right-click and get the option?
I am not a coder so I would not know the first thing of how to impliment such a function, but I just wanted to throw this in there as an idea for Zotero's developers or for the community in general.