Note-Taking "Sessions"...

ezmiller
So I really love Zotero. It is an excellent tool. I have one suggestion which may be particularly suited to those who use Zotero for making detailed notes on complicated texts. Or people that visit the same texts multiple times for different purposes.

What I am getting at is the idea of allowing us to have a second layer under the notes section for different note taking "sessions". So if I look at a certain book in March 2007 and then I want to revisit that book but take a different set of note two years later I can create two different sets of notes, which remain distinct. One could even include a brief field wherein one could state the basic goal of the note-taking "session".

What do people think of this idea?
  • dstillman
    You can create a tag for each "session" and apply it to the notes, and then use the tag selector or a saved search to show just notes with that tag.
  • Tjowens
    You can also switch your notes to sort chronologically through this hidden pref.
    extensions.zotero.sortNotesChronologically
  • erazlogo
    edited August 19, 2008
    You can create a tag for each "session" and apply it to the notes, and then use the tag selector or a saved search to show just notes with that tag.
    You can name the tag to convey the basic goal of the notetaking session, i.e. "dissertation notes," "article notes," "book review," etc.--then you won't need the extra field.
  • ezmiller
    That is all true. But if done for many books in a large collection, it would become very messy and unwieldy. This was just a suggestion for a possible modification or new feature, perhaps a feature that could be toggled -- I don't really know what is possible and what is not.

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