Feature request for new PDF and IOS app

meesew

Thanks for all your hardwork on building up this software! The work you have done so far is great! One thing I have always wanted is an easy way to save a citation in something I am reading to a "look up later" list, rather than going down the rabbit hole. If there was someway to highlight a citation in the app and send the text or even better the doi or other citation information to a list seperate from the normal highlighting, copying and pasting features, that would make a huge difference. Also, it would be really nice to have a find full text option. And, if you could integrate some more advanced method to handle PDF's and correct citation information. I am sure you are working on all of these ideas and I will try to share thoughts I have as I continue beta testing. Thanks for all of your hard work!

dstillman

If there was someway to highlight a citation in the app and send the text or even better the doi or other citation information to a list seperate from the normal highlighting, copying and pasting features, that would make a huge difference.

I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Could you say more about the workflow you have in mind?

meesew

So sorry that wasn't clear! I mean while I am reading a PDF, I often copy and paste the citation into google scholar to get the article and download into my library, sometimes this takes a lot of time. On Mendeley's web importer sometimes you can import all or selected references into your folder really easily by putting a check mark. But I would love to be able to highlight the text of a citation while reading an article that uses it as a references in the text, and easily send that text somewhere to follow up on later, or to highlight the citation information in the reference section and click a button that imports that citation information into my library. I hope that helps clarify what I was saying :-)

dstillman

In the Zotero desktop app, you can just paste the DOI into Add Item by Identifier.

A similar feature will be added to the iOS app. In the meantime, you can use the save page to save the item to your online library without going to look it up separately.

Another option would be to highlight things normally and then add a tag (e.g., "look up") to the annotation. It's not yet possible to search for annotations by tags, but it will be soon, and that would let you quickly find all highlights with that tag from the library view.

I think there are some other things we could do here, but those are likely the best options now and in the near future.

meesew

That is great advice, thank you so much!