Zotero PDF annotation: Sort by date [Feature request]

vivjiu

I love the PDF annotation feature in Zotero, and how I can easily add it to the notes. Is there a way I can sort the annotations by data?

I read some articles in my library over many days/ revisit them after some time, and make annotations that I'd like to extract to the note.

dstillman

Not currently. Could you say more about the exact workflow you're envisioning?

ChaoQi1

I also love to have annotations sorted by their adding date.

Workflow:
For re-reading a book or an article in zotero, I want to only visit several specific sites and add annotations there.
After reading, I would extract the annotations and sort them according to their adding date. That way, I can easily find and then work on the notes added most recently.

Is that possible? Thanks.

burgarth

Maybe not exactly what the OP asked for, but what would be incredibly useful if modifying or adding an annotation on a PDF with the internal viewer would reflect in the "Date Modified" field. This way, we could sort by "Date Modified" to see which files we have been working on recently.

ChaoQi1

I think up another way of getting recently modified notes out by starting annotations with modified dates.

Now, my workflow is this:
Start annotations with current date.
Extract annotations in Zotero.
Copy and paste annotations to my refrence note, and only keep those annotations with recent date.

mjthoraval

This is now available via the Weavero plugin: https://github.com/mjthoraval/Weavero

The reader's Annotations tab can be sorted by position (current sorting), date added, or date modified in either direction — right-click the Annotations tab header for the menu, and a one-click sort bar appears while a non-default sort is active. While sorting by date, each annotation card also shows its date directly (time-only for today's, full timestamp on hover), so recent annotations are visible at a glance rather than one hover at a time.

There's also date filtering from the filter above the Reader: independent "Added" and "Modified" ranges — rolling windows like "last 2 days" or a custom calendar range — with Alt+click to exclude a range.

On the extraction workflow discussed here: the annotations you select in the sidebar are added to a note in the sidebar's current display order — so with Weavero sorting by date, "Add to Note" (or dragging the selection into a note) inserts them chronologically. Combined with the date filter, you can narrow the sidebar to a range, select all, and extract exactly those annotations — without any manual date-prefixing.

Welcome to provide feedback through the Weavero GitHub issues.