Colored Notes (like the Colored Tags)

deadside
Hi all,

just recently joined in on Zotero and really like it a lot so far. There are a few things that still bug me a bit or that I do miss and somehow remember having had in other programs before (that decided to stay out of the multi-platform business and thus are no option for me any longer).

One of these is the possibility to attach colors to the notes itself in the titles list so that I can immediately see which notes are of high importance or need to be worked on more. Same goes for notes that need additional information due to a text still to be read. Colors help as a reminder and work better for me then attaching "Important" or "To do" colored tags to the files.

Any ideas?

Plus: Is there any plugin that helps to use the notes to pre-arrange a document by sorting them in a specific order and maybe even by adding a structure. Or would that be something to create a plugin for?

Thanks a lot!
  • RintzeRintze
    You are aware that you can assign (colored) tags to notes?
  • deadside
    Yes, I do currently and thus was wondering if it could be one step less. It's just that if I open a section of my literature list, it would be nice to immediately see which notes are still work-in-progress and such. If not, I will just get used to the tags.
  • mronkko
    I believe that this is precisely what colored tags would allow you to do. You can assign a colored tag by:

    1) Click on a note
    2) Press a key from 1-6

    It would be difficult to make it one step less from this.

    (This assumes that you have set up some colored tags)
  • deadside
    Yeah, working with the color tags.

    To give a visual idea of what I had in mind, see for instance http://gigaom.com/2008/04/02/beginning-mac-color-labels/

    But if it doesn't exist, I will just have to adjust my workflow to using colored tags, instead of adjusting the program to my workflow ;)
  • dstillman
    It's unlikely we're going to add anything for coloring the middle pane beyond colored tags.
  • deadside
    Thank you, Dan. Will adjust then!
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