paste markdown into notes?

jmaxsfu
I like that Zotero can produce markdown, but I'd like to be able to bring it in as well...

Here's a really specific use case... In annotating a PDF, I end up with highlighted snippets plus my own comments -- these are not, when they end up in a Note, distinguished in any straightforward (i.e., markdown-y) way. So I copied this all out into a text editor to clean it all up -- by making nice markdown out of it: marking the quotes as quotes, for instance.

But I can't paste that back in as markdown. Instead I get literal markdown marks rather than the formatted version I want.

I realize this is a feature request, and not merely a bug. It would be nice if markdown support extended through, though.
  • Bobby2
    Just find myself with an alternative but similar scenario - using Calibre to mark specific excerpts in an epub file, then exporting them to markdown in order to paste them in a Zotero note (Calibre markdown export is convenient as it includes links to epub file in Calibre). But Zotero would not interpret the pasted markdown.
  • dstillman
    In annotating a PDF, I end up with highlighted snippets plus my own comments -- these are not, when they end up in a Note, distinguished in any straightforward (i.e., markdown-y) way.
    @jmaxsfu: I'm not sure what you mean by this. When you add highlight annotations to Zotero notes, the highlighted text is placed in quotes, a citation is added, and your comment is placed after the citation. You can also turn on annotation colors from the note editor menu. If you prefer to use blockquotes, you can use a custom note template. There's no reason you should have to use an external editor.

    But it's not currently possible to parse Markdown on import, no. We can consider a way to do that, though.
  • jmaxsfu
    Thanks for the reply. In fiddling around with this more, I think I can distill my issue down to: the note editor does not really handle markdown natively... it'll export it, but you can't just move markdown in and out of it.

    So +1 to fuller markdown support, in and out, in the future.

    So while I'm at it... the ideal behaviour would be for a highlighted quote to be marked as a block quotation as opposed to quotation marks. For me, at least -- much easier to see/parse/deal with downstream.

    Worth saying that this is my first quibble with Zotero in years of using it. It is absolutely wonderful software! Thanks to everyone who
  • dstillman
    So while I'm at it... the ideal behaviour would be for a highlighted quote to be marked as a block quotation as opposed to quotation marks.
    I explained how you can do that.
  • jmaxsfu
    Indeed you did, and that works like a hot damn. Thank you!
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