How to migrate from Papers 3.0 to Zotero
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, I couldn't find it...
I'd like to move my 1050 PDFs from Papers 3.0 (Mac) to Zotero in the simplest way possible.
It seems from reading the forums that syncing with WebDAV or Dropbox would make sense (I already have my Papers library in Dropbox).
Is there an easy way to do this without having to relink all of the papers individually?
Thanks for your help!
Andrew
I'd like to move my 1050 PDFs from Papers 3.0 (Mac) to Zotero in the simplest way possible.
It seems from reading the forums that syncing with WebDAV or Dropbox would make sense (I already have my Papers library in Dropbox).
Is there an easy way to do this without having to relink all of the papers individually?
Thanks for your help!
Andrew
As for now, linked papers would be automatically imported into Zotero's storage folder - from where you could use webDAV sync. You can not just leave them where they are and link to them.
RIS export / import in general works with bib data and PDFs but it seems not to work with highlights/underlines made in Papers.
I can also export a .txt file of Notes that contain all of the highlighted text and notes by page number.
I've tried importing these into Mendeley but the highlights disappear. Is there a way then to make the highlights and notes appear, per your comment above?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zotfile/versions/ (strongly recommend installing version 4.0, even though it's not yet reviewed by mozilla), run "extract annotations" and you'll get a single note per item with all your annotations/notes from the PDF.
Note that this requires that your PDFs are attached to Zotero items (which would hopefully be the case when you import from papers).