[Feature request] Labelling the ''highlight text colours"

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  • +1, this would be a great feature. I have my own colour-coding system but always forget which colour means which thing!
  • +1 I really want this feature!
  • It is possible to change the label of the annotations colors in the PDF Reader with this Action Script of the Actions & Tags plugin (Zotero 7 only):
    https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-actions-tags/discussions/211
  • +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • This is also possible with the "zotero-style" plugin, but it would be nice if this would become possible without the need for extra plugins.
  • +1, I typically use Yellow for background, Red for important original findings, and green for methods. It would be so helpful to be able to label these (and others). Also, adding custom highlight colors along with labels (and expanding the number of options) would be helpful.
  • edited yesterday at 11:25pm
    @stijn.decoster

    If I may ask, where/how do I achieve that? Unfortunately, my Chinese is not (yet) good enough so some of the features of that plugin still escape me.

    Any pointers are much appreciated!

    EDIT: I found it!
    In the pre-release version for Zotero 7, in the plugin settings for Zotero-Style, there is a checkbox called Annotaiton Colors. You have to check it and then click on the edit button. This leads you to a popup window where you can define custom names, custom colours, and rearrange the order. You can even add more colours than the standard ones or define more than one colour set. There's also an import and export functionality (copy to and from clipboard, so the code needs to be manually saved somewhere). It's exactly what I was looking for!
    My only complain is that the context menu is not well-designed for languages using the roman alphabet. The horizontal mode makes the menu too wide, wheras the vertical mode makes the labels rather unreadable. Fingers crossed that this gets fixed in the stable release.
  • It would be cool to have highlight profiles. For example one could label different colours by priority, and save that as a highlighting profile, and have another profile that is highlighting based on theme, sources, or whatever other creative things that people come up with. This would allow individual items to have different highlighting approaches.
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