Hi, I understand this Zotfile feature has been disabled with the update, but this new annotation extraction cannot extract notes by a single color, which has thrown me off as this was the main function I was using Zotfile for. What should I do? Thank you!
I have over 500 articles to do this for, so this is not a plausible way for me to go about this when Zotfile automated the process completely. So I'm just out of luck?
I'm doing a qual/quant analysis project and was using color highlights as a coding scheme (different colors meaning different codes within text documents). With Zotfiles annotation extractor and Zoteros tagging system I have been able to pretty efficiently group different sets of articles and analyze the color coded annotations.
For example, I could group together all the red highlights for a specific set of tagged articles to compare. Or all the purple highlights for my entire population.
I hope that makes sense! My colleague is using MAXQDA to do the same thing, but I honestly liked the system I had come up with better.
So you want to create a single standalone note from selected items — like the Create Note from Annotations option — but with the ability to limit it to specific colors?
I could see us adding a dialog to that option that would allow filtering by color or tag.
@dstillman So is there an option that this dialog option will happen within the near future? Can you be frank with me so I know if I need to move the entirety of my project to a completely different software or not?
What is the point of an update if it makes useful plug ins obsolete? In my opinion, the plug in and other PDF readers were a-okay while Zoteros option for these are seriously lacking in utility. Why fix something that isn't broken?
Sorry for my frustration but this has been a project I have poured a ton of time and effort into for well over a year. I was just about to finish up, but now it looks like I'm starting all over with a different software because Zotero wanted a PDF reader. Wonderful.
this has been a project I have poured a ton of time and effort into for well over a year. I was just about to finish up,
You can download old versions of Zotero and Zotfile if this is about finishing a project. dstillman would be able to say for sure, but I wouldn't wait on a specific Zotero feature to land. Timing on such things is always uncertain.
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For example, I could group together all the red highlights for a specific set of tagged articles to compare. Or all the purple highlights for my entire population.
I hope that makes sense! My colleague is using MAXQDA to do the same thing, but I honestly liked the system I had come up with better.
Thanks!
I could see us adding a dialog to that option that would allow filtering by color or tag.
Maybe something like this: https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-better-notes/issues/85#issuecomment-1210063595 could help?
This link you connected to looks like what i need.
Apologies for the newb question but where exactly would I type this code to extract the Zotero notes into another Zotero note?
Could you please open an issue in the plugin repo: https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-better-notes/issues
and we could discuss it there? Sharing images would be easier on GitHub.
What is the point of an update if it makes useful plug ins obsolete? In my opinion, the plug in and other PDF readers were a-okay while Zoteros option for these are seriously lacking in utility. Why fix something that isn't broken?
Sorry for my frustration but this has been a project I have poured a ton of time and effort into for well over a year. I was just about to finish up, but now it looks like I'm starting all over with a different software because Zotero wanted a PDF reader. Wonderful.