Oh, I forgot to add this: I was hoping to have found a work around using the 'add to note' button which appears when marking text in pdf: you can choose for a certain colour, but also for 'add to note'. I thought: ah, now I can filter notes and labels, but somehow the button is unavailable (remains gray).
https://www.zotero.org/support/pdf_reader#adding_annotations_to_notes