Don't get me wrong: I'm itching to switch but we "aren't there yet."

Or perhaps you're simply requesting something (exporting notes to RTF) that almost no one has requested in 2.5 years? (I can't really find any other requests for this, but I'll assume there've been one or two.) It's a fine feature request and something that could perhaps be implemented if people showed interest, but for most users it doesn't appear to be the glaring deficiency you make it out to be.

As I said to you on another thread, you can drag notes directly to Word (though in 2.0 Beta the new rich-text notes will still show up as HTML, which needs to be fixed). You didn't respond to suggest that this was in any way inadequate.

Back in 2007 there was a forum here asking for ability to tweak Reports

Feel free to revive a relevant thread with specific suggestions (which might include, say, RTF being a possible report format).

For what it's worth, it sounds like Larryr, who simply requested the ability to "see the notes all at once", might be at least partly satisfied by creating a saved search with "item type" "is" "note" and generating a report from that.

HTML?

Are you kidding? Do most people use MS Office in HTML mode? No? Why not?

Look, leaving aside your snarky comments, I am a researcher and writer. Many people in business -- and all in academia -- are researchers and writers of some sort. There is a reason why Endnote has an export bib in RTF format.

I can recall snarky responses to a much earlier request I made (years ago) for Rich Text in Zotero. "Why would you want such a thing?" "Totally irrelevant." Well, now we have Rich Text and my college students love it.

I use Zotero to grab citations but for notetaking the report function stinks. (Yes, there was a thread by others in 2007 and a promise to develop customization of the Report layout).

The notes -- the most important thing if you took them -- are far down the clunky HTML report.

BTW, dragging notes is not a solution for any one working with many note cards. (My last Endnote database had 5,700 "notecards").

***The most important point, since this is an academic project:

I am a teacher and when students ask for a bunch of citations or notes to a particular topic (keyword in Endnote), I simply select those keywords and export to RTF. As a teacher, I must have done this 500 times. Now, you say, I can somehow hunt through Zotero and drag around the notes? Oy vey.

PS: I did post at another forum but this site is so overwhelmed.

"Endnote has an RTF export feature because the application was invented before HTML even existed."

Yes and look how we all work in HTML now. "Hey, Jill, send me that report in HTML."

PDF, Word, yes. HTML?

Now I'm being snarky. This forum has the feel of a Linux group. Fortunately, the developers ignored all the snarling at rich text and put it in 2.0. Perhaps the same will be true on other fronts.

HTML. That's funny.

Fortunately, the developers ignored all the snarling at rich text and put it in 2.0.

Actually, the developers' response to this feature request proves the process here works pretty well. The primary outcome of those discussions was a) that the issues were rather complicated, and b) better to do it right, rather than quickly. They did just that, and the upshot is that most people are happy with the rich text support in notes.

As for your other comments, what Dan said; I suggest you reassess whether your tone here is doing your cause any good.

If you're a scholar, you ought to be a little more careful about attribution and quotation and such. By "other names," I take it you mean "jjb"? And are you referring to this previous conversation? If yes, then you're wildly misquoting and mischaracterizing Rick in this thread.

Not so much for jonbean, but for the record:

In that post, he asked about sharing references and notes among a class of students. A great way to do this now (and I may experiment with this myself this coming term) is to use the new group and sharing functionality in Zotero 2.0. So no files at all, HTML or otherwise.