When creating a new standalone note for a pdf, I can't search for existing notes

goldbry · 2025-09-04T00:52:34+00:00

I HATE this version. I am writing a dissertation, and you just completely blew up my workflow. WTF. I have a library of standalone notes named by topic. When I find a passage I want to use for a specific topic, I put it in the appropriate standalone note. I used to simply click "make a new note" and a search bar appeared. I could search for my existing standalone note, open it in the note pane, and deposit my passage. Now I cannot figure out how to do this and I want to cry. Can I go back to the old version?

dstillman · 2025-09-04T01:13:12+00:00

1) https://www.zotero.org/support/forum_guidelines#etiquette

2) I'm not sure what you mean here. If you provide some screenshots of what you're looking at, we can tell you how to do what you're trying to do.