there are notes, and then THIS. what's the diff?
If I click on a note in the centre pane (I don't know the pane-naming conventions), it comes up in an editor in the right pane. If, however, I click on a pdf attachment in the centre pane, the right pane shows its title etc. on top, and then also provides an editor beneath. What is it that happens in this editor? Is this also a note? The centre pane gives no indication if a pdf has rich text info or not, which actually makes me nervous about using it so much (to make notes on the associated pdf). Just because it isn't named, doesn't mean it's going to disappear ever, right? Also, the option to edit in a separate window isn't available as it is for right proper notes. Why?
Edit: just to clarify, these notes -which I (mis)called "integrated"- have nothing to do with comments written _into_ pdf files.
A brief statement from Dan would be great.
There's no special warning message when you delete the pdf. And maybe, the pdf icon could change (in overlaying a small yellow spot).
Ideally, they should appear as a child (of the pdf) even in the UI.
Edit: these "integrated" notes appear under all attachments.
We have no plans to remove them at this point. It's not impossible that at some point the ones on child attachments would be moved to separate sibling notes under the same parent [edit: or child notes, as Gracile suggests, if we allow more than two levels of hierarchy], but we don't have any plans to do so.
The next major version of Zotero will also provide an indicator in the center pane of their existence.
thanks Dan, that's good to know - having the visual in the center pane will be nice.
It took me a while to come up with this solution and it certainly works very well for me. The transcribed text will show up in searches and the next click takes me straight to the photo, if I need a reminder of what the document looked like.