Export the PDF annotations according to different colors

zitash
Dear all,

I'm quite fond of the pdf reader and annotation in the Zotero. As you see, the highlights can be colored in either red, yellow, green, purple or blue, and I myself specify these colors with different meaning:

- yellow, the contents that are noticeable when further reading
- red, the relevant literatures that I never read before
- purple, the relevant theoretical contents that I don't understand yet and will work on in the future
- blue, nice sentences or paraphrases to imitate
- green, similar to yellow, but shall be more aware of.

I would like to export these annotations separately according to the colors. Does any one have any ideas to do this? Is there any plugin required to do this?

I will be grateful for any reply.

Regards,
Zitash.
  • dstillman
    This will be possible in a future version — you'll be able to filter the annotations by color and then drag them all to a note.

    Were you looking to do this for a single PDF at a time or for all annotations of a given color in the library?
  • zitash
    I am looking forward to this both for a single PDF or for a bunch of the literatures I selected.

    - For a book or some papers that are individually important to me, I would like to export them separately;
    - For a bunch of papers I prepare for background study, I would like to export them together by selecting together.

    Right now, as this is not available in current version, I think it's better to work on the single PDF for the first step.
  • dstillman
    Just to be clear, you can already open the annotations sidebar, select multiple annotations, and drag them to a note. You just can't filter by color and then use Select All.
  • zitash
    Wow, Thanks! I was not aware of this straightforward operation! It is helpful.

    Hope there will be a color filter for the annotations.
  • danielborek
    Will be there option to display annotations with their colors when converting to note? Such options could be to set by editing advances settings
  • dstillman
    @danielborek: That already exists. There's an "Apply Annotation Colors" option in the three-dots menu in the note editor.
  • danielborek
    Thank you for the comment, It was really helpful, I didnt notice that or it didnt existed in one of the first betas months before
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