@adamsmith Nice. But I take it that the annotations made by 3rd party cannot be imported to Zotero.
"Third-party tools can be used to annotate and highlight web pages before saving them to Zotero."
Probably best thing to do would be go to the website, eg Wikipedia, and select>highlight>copy the bits you want and make a note in Zotero, also snapshot the webpage.
that's not how most html annotation tools work, though -- mostly data is saved to a different file or, in the case of Hypothes.is, Genius, etc., on a server, so saving the annotated file to Zotero wouldn't work very well (or rather: it wouldn't sync).
I've talked to Hypothes.is about writing a tool that pulls annotations into Zotero -- at a technical level that's pretty easy to do, but time is scarce...
I was mistake about how Hypohes.is works (I assumed it worked similarly other tools/browser extensions I’d previously used—couldn’t say what those were). See adamsmith’s comment above.
It actually kind of works in Wikipedia (for those interested in the technology: because Wikipedia has a rel="canonical" link on every page) but you need to a) actually fire up the hypothesis tool on the snapshot which b) only work using the bookmarklet, not the Chrome extension
So the order of steps would be: 1. Make annotations on the page 2. Save page with snapshot in Zotero 3. Open snapshot in your browser 4. Use the hypothesis bookmarklet to see the annotation (and make further annotations)
Given the way Wikipedia is coded, this annotation will travel wherever the site is, whether it's synced to a different computer or whether you're online on Wikipedia.
Fairplay to you man! Seriosuly kudos for the time and effort. But no thanks, it involves too many steps and besides it isn't exactly what I want. I think taking parts if Wiki page into clipboard and making a note in Zotero will be the finest, accompanied by a snapshop. Thanks again.
Upgrade Storage
https://www.zotero.org/support/screencast_tutorials/annotation
https://web.hypothes.is/
"Third-party tools can be used to annotate and highlight web pages before saving them to Zotero."
Probably best thing to do would be go to the website, eg Wikipedia, and select>highlight>copy the bits you want and make a note in Zotero, also snapshot the webpage.
I've talked to Hypothes.is about writing a tool that pulls annotations into Zotero -- at a technical level that's pretty easy to do, but time is scarce...
Somehow it isn't working for me. I have created a Hypothes.is account.
Highlighted a random bit, see here
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b5jonaezdsqsrj1/highlight.PNG?dl=0
but when taken snapshot, it's w/o annotations
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x6qr1vlobfr5j6h/non-highlight.PNG?dl=0
a) actually fire up the hypothesis tool on the snapshot which
b) only work using the bookmarklet, not the Chrome extension
So the order of steps would be:
1. Make annotations on the page
2. Save page with snapshot in Zotero
3. Open snapshot in your browser
4. Use the hypothesis bookmarklet to see the annotation (and make further annotations)
Given the way Wikipedia is coded, this annotation will travel wherever the site is, whether it's synced to a different computer or whether you're online on Wikipedia.