Where does Zotero store the notes?
Hello,
I would like to save my notes on an hard disk, but can't find them. I don't use the online storage option of Zotero, everything should be on my laptop.
Thanks in advance for your help!
I would like to save my notes on an hard disk, but can't find them. I don't use the online storage option of Zotero, everything should be on my laptop.
Thanks in advance for your help!
I don't find them precisely. Are they in the storage folder, cache files?
If you want them as files, maybe this plug-in could be for you (I've only used it sporadically because it does more than I need): https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-better-notes?tab=readme-ov-file#syncing-note-️-markdown
But you may want to ask yourself first, why you would want to have these files on your desktop? What is missing from zotero that necessitates this? Also look at the better notes plugin as it may solve the issues you may have within zotero.
You can also make use of Actions & Tags plugin to export a new note automatically.
You can also use Word plugin's import note option to search and import them to word.
I see everyone's point though about the Better Notes app. Are you all using it productively? I think you have succeeded in convincing me that this might just not be all that necessary – and the workflow, unproductive!
So I've been organizing and backing up my Zotero library. And I'm still not quite grasping the idea that all of my notes are stored as one SQLITE file in my desktop under \Zotero\Data\zotero.sqlite. Is that it?
To back that up it would suffice to copy that one file and/or export each individual note?