Upgrade Storagecreate another child note from selected text
The only instructions I can find for moving selected web-page text I may want to use later as a quote is pertinent only to the first block of text to be grabbed:
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Grabbing Text From Webpages
Because new research often incorporates pre-existing work, Zotero makes it easy for you to migrate quotable material from a web-based source into your notes. Highlight the relevant text, right-click (ctrl-click on the Mac) to open a pop-up menu, and select “Create Zotero Item and Note from Selection”. This will create a new library item with the selected text as an attached note. In this way, Zotero facilitates transcription as well as annotation.
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But quite often there might be more than one passage within a web page that stand out upon my first read and that I think might furnish a good quote within a paper later on.
When such passages are discontiguous, is there a way to "add another child note to selected item"?
What I've been doing:
* highlight the second or subsequent passage I want to "clip" as a potential quote
* right-click and choose the Zotero -> Create Zotero Item and Note from selection
* move the note attached to the newly created item into position as an additional child note on the previously created item
* now delete the duplicate (new) item that had been created in this process.
I'm thinking there _must_ be a smoother way to do this but I can't find it in the docs or in this forum. Is there a better way? (If not, I will create a new post in the Feature Request category for "create additional child note from selected text".)
thanks much!
kazar
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Grabbing Text From Webpages
Because new research often incorporates pre-existing work, Zotero makes it easy for you to migrate quotable material from a web-based source into your notes. Highlight the relevant text, right-click (ctrl-click on the Mac) to open a pop-up menu, and select “Create Zotero Item and Note from Selection”. This will create a new library item with the selected text as an attached note. In this way, Zotero facilitates transcription as well as annotation.
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But quite often there might be more than one passage within a web page that stand out upon my first read and that I think might furnish a good quote within a paper later on.
When such passages are discontiguous, is there a way to "add another child note to selected item"?
What I've been doing:
* highlight the second or subsequent passage I want to "clip" as a potential quote
* right-click and choose the Zotero -> Create Zotero Item and Note from selection
* move the note attached to the newly created item into position as an additional child note on the previously created item
* now delete the duplicate (new) item that had been created in this process.
I'm thinking there _must_ be a smoother way to do this but I can't find it in the docs or in this forum. Is there a better way? (If not, I will create a new post in the Feature Request category for "create additional child note from selected text".)
thanks much!
kazar
* highlight and copy the potential quote
* In Zotero "create child note" for the correct item
* paste the quote into the child note.