Upgrade StorageFeature request – tagging "portions" of notes
Hi,
I would like to request a feature for a better management of notes and annotations. It seems that tags can only be added to full references (I can tag a book or an article as a whole) or to notes (I can tag each notesheet I add to a reference). But, to me, it would be even more useful to be able to tag portions of texts as readings can refer to great numbers of topics (= tags) : filtering by tags would thus enable me to find all the portions of texts on one topic more quickly instead of having to go through the content of each note to check where the portion on the specific tag is.
For example, if I have a book on History of France in my bibliography, I will tag it, let's say, as "History". As I read and take notes of it in a Zotero notesheet, I find that a few lines on women during the French revolution are very interesting. Instead of adding the tag "women during the French revolution" to the whole notesheet, I would like to add it to the specific section of notes I have taken on this subject so that I can sort exactly what focuses on this topic even in very general books.
Do you see what I mean ? Would it be possible to add such a feature in Zotero (I mean in practical terms) ? Is there another way to achieve this ?
Thank you in advance !
Céline
I would like to request a feature for a better management of notes and annotations. It seems that tags can only be added to full references (I can tag a book or an article as a whole) or to notes (I can tag each notesheet I add to a reference). But, to me, it would be even more useful to be able to tag portions of texts as readings can refer to great numbers of topics (= tags) : filtering by tags would thus enable me to find all the portions of texts on one topic more quickly instead of having to go through the content of each note to check where the portion on the specific tag is.
For example, if I have a book on History of France in my bibliography, I will tag it, let's say, as "History". As I read and take notes of it in a Zotero notesheet, I find that a few lines on women during the French revolution are very interesting. Instead of adding the tag "women during the French revolution" to the whole notesheet, I would like to add it to the specific section of notes I have taken on this subject so that I can sort exactly what focuses on this topic even in very general books.
Do you see what I mean ? Would it be possible to add such a feature in Zotero (I mean in practical terms) ? Is there another way to achieve this ?
Thank you in advance !
Céline
http://zotfile.com/ pluging allow you to extract the annotation from a PDF file and transform those in a note attached to the references. Perhaps it may help in your case.
I don't think Zotero is going to be able to add such features in a praticale way. I think citations managers, in general, are pretty archaic, to be honest. They only solve one problem well: citation formating and bibliography generation (and still, it's buggy, slow, citation of law doesn't work well and you can't collaborate easely using two different citation manager).
I'm still waiting for a new generation of reference and knowledge management. Yet, I will not hold my breath. Academia is notably slow regarding such tools and tends to use legacy tools for ages in the lack of proper alternative and because of the inertia (LaTex, R, ...).
Regards,
Simon
For example, you could add this after the relevant section heading to tag the section as a counter argument.
##counterargument
(Personally, I use Zotero’s tools for file management, organization, and collaboration much more than I use it for doing citations. Zotero is much more than a bibliography generator.)
I guess I'll have to follow bwiernik's recommendation for the moment, but I've been dreaming for months for the day Citavi gets a macOS version !
Thanks again :)