Qnotero (formerly Gnotero)
Dear Zotero users,
I've released a new version of Gnotero, the standalone sidekick to Zotero. So new, in fact, that I've renamed it to Qnotero. The name change reflects a change in the underlying toolkit: I switched from Gtk2 to Qt4.
The general idea has remained the same: A simple tool to provide quick access to your Zotero references from the system tray. But Qnotero should be faster than Gnotero, it is prettier (and themeable) and it provides better compatibility with Windows.
Hope you enjoy it and please let me know of any problems you encounter!
http://www.cogsci.nl/software/qnotero
Kindest regards,
Sebastiaan
I've released a new version of Gnotero, the standalone sidekick to Zotero. So new, in fact, that I've renamed it to Qnotero. The name change reflects a change in the underlying toolkit: I switched from Gtk2 to Qt4.
The general idea has remained the same: A simple tool to provide quick access to your Zotero references from the system tray. But Qnotero should be faster than Gnotero, it is prettier (and themeable) and it provides better compatibility with Windows.
Hope you enjoy it and please let me know of any problems you encounter!
http://www.cogsci.nl/software/qnotero
Kindest regards,
Sebastiaan
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "qnotero", line 33, in
NameError: name 'exit' is not defined
The program still starts though
On both systems I used the "Auto-detect" feature to let Qnotero find the Zotero folder.
Ubuntu 10.04 running the most recent Firefox-for-Ubuntu version 4.0 and Zotero 2.1.9.r10389
and
Windows 7 running Firefox 8.0 and Zotero 2.1.10
I 'm probably missing something pretty basic here -- any ideas?
Hope this helps!
Sorry for the slow response, I've been away from office.
Qnotero indexes pretty much instantaneously. Perhaps a few hundred milliseconds, but certainly nothing that should be noticeable. It's very strange that Qnotero fails to find your references.
Could you perhaps run Qnotero from a terminal an post the output? Some additional info might be helpful as well, notably the Zotero version and the relevant path names.
Sebastiaan
qnotero is very nice and fast. Thanks.
For me it would be really fine, if I have two additional features included:
- the search should also includes tags - not only title, author, date.
- found attachments should be opened by the standard programm of the operating system. Not only pdf attachements should be viewable.
SiGi
Thanks for your suggestions! I listed them as feature requests on GitHub.
I'm not yet sure about the opening of non-pdf attachments. It may be useful on some occasions, but it also adds complexity. I'd have to think about the best way to implement this.
Sebastiaan
thanks for considering my suggestions.
I have another feature request. It would be nice, if qnotero also search the only-pdf-attachments entries in the Zotero database (only by title, there are no author,.. informations). I have a lot of pdf attachments which have no parent full item with all meta data in my zotero database. (Mostly the unread pdf articles).
So zotero / qnotero would also be usefull searching a simple pdf-archive.
But this feature request is for me not so important as the request above.
SIGGI.
Someone already put in that request: forum.cogsci.nl/index.php?p=/discussion/57/search-bug
:-)
Sebastiaan
I am having the same problem that garrigus had several years ago. Basically, the search is not working. I am sure the Qnotero points to the right folder and also tried to paste the zotero folder to other location and the problem persists.
Any idea?
thanks in advance,
-Alex
Below is what appears when I run the qnotero from the terminal
libqnotero._themes.default.__init__(): using '/usr/share/qnotero/resources/default'
qnotero.reInit(): using GnoteProvider
libgnote.__init__(): failed to locate Gnote
libzotero.__init__(): zotero_path = b'/home/alexhubbe/MEGA/MEGAsync/zotero'
no such table: creatorData
"sni-qt/3740" WARN 08:46:42.107 void StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE
qnotero.updateCheck(): opening http://files.cogsci.nl/software/qnotero/MOST_RECENT_VERSION.TXT
qnotero.updateCheck(): most recent = 1.0.0, current = 1.0.0
libzotero.search(): search for 'Hubbe' completed in 0.003s
saving!
libqnotero._themes.default.__init__(): using '/usr/share/qnotero/resources/default'
qnotero.reInit(): using GnoteProvider
libgnote.__init__(): failed to locate Gnote
libzotero.__init__(): zotero_path = b'/home/alexhubbe/Documents/zotero'
no such table: creatorData
libzotero.search(): search for 'Hubbe' completed in 0.003s
libzotero.search(): search for 'Hubb' completed in 0.002s
libzotero.search(): search for '2017' completed in 0.002s
libzotero.search(): search for '2016' completed in 0.002s
thank you!
https://github.com/ealbiter/qnotero
I've already fixed the compatibility problem with Zotero 5.0.x, created a macOS bundle, and made other changes.
Any comments, bug reports, and suggestions are welcome.
I hope you enjoy the new version of Qnotero
On a Kubuntu 18.04 64 bit system I just tried to install qnotero as instructed but it fails returning this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 22, in
from libqnotero.qnotero import Qnotero
File "/home/name/Downloads/qnotero-2.1.1/libqnotero/qnotero.py", line 31, in
from libzotero.libzotero import LibZotero
File "/home/name/Downloads/qnotero-2.1.1/libzotero/libzotero.py", line 27, in
from libzotero.zotero_item import zoteroItem as zotero_item
ImportError: No module named zotero_item
any help would be appreciated, thank you
1. Install dependencies, if not installed:
sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5 python3-distutils
2. Run install command:
sudo python3 setup.py install
Now I finally have back Qnotero, please keep on maintaining it!
It would be good updating the information on the Zotero plugins page (https://www.zotero.org/support/plugins), which still indicates lack of compatibility with Zotero 5; also it would be good to include trhe link to your GitHub repo.
Thank you very much for your precious work, I will advertise it.
What would be very helpful would be if among the options was to open the record in Zotero and/or indicate what library the record is in. This would significantly overcome the lack of cross-library search within Zotero.
Along the same lines, would it be possible for it to mirror the UI that is in the word processor integration (citation selector), where results from different libraries are separated under different headings?
Obviously, I've no idea if any of this is feasible, but thanks very much for making it available again!
Tom