Zotero 7: search for tags in annotations
Hi,
I think a major improvement would be the possibility to search for the annotations with a certain tag, and see directly the list of annotations in the results.
This could be a game-changer for researchers because it would allow to quickly highlight a passage related to a certain topic, tag it, and later find all the excerpts related to that topic.
Imagine if you write an article where you want to summarize all the different ways in which a certain concept was defined: you clic on that tag and you see a list of all the sentences tagged "That-Concept-Definition" that you have read in the last 10 years of research. And then maybe if you clic on each annotation you directly go to that part of the book/paper, to check the context. If this was possible... few clicks and your article is almost ready :)
If someone knows a workaround to achieve the same result, I would be extremely grateful!
I think a major improvement would be the possibility to search for the annotations with a certain tag, and see directly the list of annotations in the results.
This could be a game-changer for researchers because it would allow to quickly highlight a passage related to a certain topic, tag it, and later find all the excerpts related to that topic.
Imagine if you write an article where you want to summarize all the different ways in which a certain concept was defined: you clic on that tag and you see a list of all the sentences tagged "That-Concept-Definition" that you have read in the last 10 years of research. And then maybe if you clic on each annotation you directly go to that part of the book/paper, to check the context. If this was possible... few clicks and your article is almost ready :)
If someone knows a workaround to achieve the same result, I would be extremely grateful!
Note that you can already search for annotation tags, though. They'll just match the parent attachments in the items list.
Thank you for your comment. Since Citavi does not offer a proper tablet app + support for Apple devices at all, it is not that interesting to me. I am wondering nevertheless, since this might be the solution until Zotero adds this feature as well: How are you exporting all your references from Zotero? What is the precise workflow? Thank you in advance.
https://www1.citavi.com/sub/manual4/en/101_sorting_quotations_and_thoughts.html
I attempted to achieve this with Zotero but without success. I also tried Better Notes, but found it to be unintuitive and clunky. I then experimented with importing the notes into various PKM systems like Obsidian and Logseq, but these tools don’t automatically sort individual text blocks into new notes based on their assigned tags—requiring manual sorting, which is both time-consuming and prone to errors.
Finally, I discovered this Zotero add-on Ze-notes by frianasoa: https://github.com/frianasoa/Ze-Notes
It does exactly what I was looking for and has been a game-changer for me.