Is there any plan to support zotfile-style annotations' zoteroURI-based links?

Hi, developers of Zotero 6.0. First of all, I would like to thank you all for the development of Zotero 6.0, which is a great version and includes many fancy features.

However, I am currently facing a problem with the integrated new function "Add Note from Annotations". In Zotero 5.0, I use Zotfile to extract annotations from PDF files to get notes. In those old-fashion notes, for every annotation item, there is a link based on zoteroURI (e.g. "Lee et al 2013:536" links to zotero://open-pdf/library/items/2LW4SP7I?page=1), which allows us to jump into a PDF file at a given location. In the past, I usually export my notes to a dedicated notes management software, Obsidian (i.e. the workflow is like this, https://bagerbach.com/blog/how-i-read-research-papers-with-obsidian-and-zotero). Thus, those zoteroURI based links are vital for me, as they allow me to jump into PDF files at given locations from Obsidian directly. But, in Zotero 6.0, the notes generated by "Add Note from Annotations" no more have explicit zoteroURI-based links, which blocks me from opening PDF files at given locations in Obsidian.
  • edited March 22, 2022
    Those guides are all going to be irrelevant for Zotero 6, which embeds the relevant metadata in the notes. There's no need for explicit zotero:// URIs in notes anymore.

    Zotero's Markdown note export, available via Quick Copy or export, includes links back to the parent item and annotation position.

    There's a change you have to make in Obsidian to prevent it from stripping the links: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/401954#Comment_401954
  • Thanks a lot for pointing me to that thread.
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