Upgrade StorageExtract annotations from non-PDF sources
Hi all, this is as much a feature request as a requirement search:
I'm an avid user of Zotfile's Extract Annotations feature to quickly retrieve what I find useful / important in the PDF materials I read.
These days, much of my research comes from blogs and other online sources, which I prefer to read via Instapaper. Instapaper offers a clean reading interface ánd a handy highlighting feature. Same goes for instance for e-books that I happen to read in Marvin. Others will use other apps, but most if not all include highlighting functionalities.
Having highlights from these non-PDF sources extracted into Zotero would be a boon for me.
Would it be best to look at ways of expanding the Zotfile functionality or would it need specific plug-in development in and of itself?
I'm an avid user of Zotfile's Extract Annotations feature to quickly retrieve what I find useful / important in the PDF materials I read.
These days, much of my research comes from blogs and other online sources, which I prefer to read via Instapaper. Instapaper offers a clean reading interface ánd a handy highlighting feature. Same goes for instance for e-books that I happen to read in Marvin. Others will use other apps, but most if not all include highlighting functionalities.
Having highlights from these non-PDF sources extracted into Zotero would be a boon for me.
Would it be best to look at ways of expanding the Zotfile functionality or would it need specific plug-in development in and of itself?
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Joscha, the Zotfile developer, doesn't currently have time to build new features, so this would have to be a contributor pull request.
(If you are looking to write this yourself, you will probably get more helpful responses on the Zotero-dev Google group.)
to import hypothes.is annotations into Zotero. Hypothes.is can annotate webpages, PDFs, and soon also epubs. It's also compliant with a just accepted web standard for annotations.
No ETA on this, but I think a prototype should happen pretty quickly.
- For Marvin, it turns out there's a plug-in for Calibre that exchanges highlights & annotations. Might pester that community for Zotero implementation ;) http://blog.marvinapp.com/post/49083753609
- Instapaper's API appears to return the highlights in JSON (not certain if this is W3C standard compatible). https://www.instapaper.com/api
Exciting development around hypthes.is. Keep us posted!
thks!