marking document as "unread" or "read" or otherwise organizing

sbraham · October 14, 2022

What is the best way to organize docs so that you know what you've read and what you haven't without opening it? In analog, I could see the handwritten notes. I would love to have either an Inbox folder that I can process and then file, or even better, a way to flag docs (like one color for unread, one for important etc). Is that possible?

adamsmith · October 14, 2022

Yes, exactly, I'd use (and do use) colored tags for this:
https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#colored_tags

sbraham · October 14, 2022

Is that available on Mac version? I don't seem to have an option to "assign color"

adamsmith · October 14, 2022

It's not available on the website, but on the Mac Desktop app, absolutely, yes (the desktop apps all have the exact same features). Note you first have to create a tag, then you can assign a color, and you can only do so in the tag selector on the bottom left.