Upgrade StorageFeature request: Preference for "automatically create note from annotations"
Hi all,
here is a feature request, based on the following issues I regularly encounter: I work on a pdf in zotero pdfreader and highlight various bits of text. Then I move to something else. Then I return and close the pdf, and I forget to have my notes turned into annotations. Now I cannot see in zotero whether I have already read and highlighted the pdf.
I could imagine two solutions:
a) zotero somehow indicates with a symbol in the main zotero pane (possinle to toggle as a column, in the same way I can toggle whether an item has notes attached) that a pdf has highlights but that these highlights have not been converted to notes. This would allow me to search for items with pdfs with highlights but no notes.
b) a (hidden) preference that, if toggled, would prompt zotero/zotero pdf reader to automatically convert highlights to a note, whenever a pdf is closed and existing highlights have not been turned into notes.
I hope this makes sense
mm
here is a feature request, based on the following issues I regularly encounter: I work on a pdf in zotero pdfreader and highlight various bits of text. Then I move to something else. Then I return and close the pdf, and I forget to have my notes turned into annotations. Now I cannot see in zotero whether I have already read and highlighted the pdf.
I could imagine two solutions:
a) zotero somehow indicates with a symbol in the main zotero pane (possinle to toggle as a column, in the same way I can toggle whether an item has notes attached) that a pdf has highlights but that these highlights have not been converted to notes. This would allow me to search for items with pdfs with highlights but no notes.
b) a (hidden) preference that, if toggled, would prompt zotero/zotero pdf reader to automatically convert highlights to a note, whenever a pdf is closed and existing highlights have not been turned into notes.
I hope this makes sense
mm
So +1 :)
To do (a) you can do the following:
In Zotero add the Notes and Attachment columns to the list view.
Install Ethereal Style plugin which provides more columns you can use - select Annotations in Style settings, then add Annotation column to the list in Zotero.
This looks like the following:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u3058096/wjmtu18k24cqhnm0075p.png
This could be done using the Action and Tags plugin by writing a script. However, it would could end up being difficult to cater for cases like:
The annotations have all been placed in one note.
Even if the annotation is placed in a separate note you might subsequently add/change the note contents
This is a niche workflow so best done using scripting rather than a feature for all users IMO.