Note templates

Dash83
Hello,

I'm looking for a way to create a template for new notes in a given collection (or all of Zotero). My intent is to have a template with a given set of fields for annotations that I can fill up upon reading these sources.

Any idea on how to achieve this?

Best regards.
  • adamsmith
    There's nothing simple. The only things that I could see would be to
    1) Patch the note software in Zotero to auto-generate notes with pre-existing text or
    2) Patch the function that creates new notes in Zotero to write content to those notes.

    Both should be doable as add-ons, but both involve actual, non-trivial coding.
  • Dash83
    I feared as much. Well, if I have any free time in the upcoming weeks, I'll try to contribute to the community with such an add-on.

    Do you have any resources on getting started with development for zotero add-ons?

    Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    The basics are here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/sample_plugin
    Though I'd recommend developing the add-on against the Zotero master branch, which is for the forthcoming 5.0 release and has a pretty significant number of changes.
    Looking at existing add-ons would be the other thing to do.

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