Possible to "Find and replace" highlight colors?

nathan.hopson
I have been using a rather simple highlighting color system.

I would like to change it, but I feel locked in because it's difficult to go back and change the highlights in items I've read previously. I worry that I'll end up confused by having multiple highlighting systems, so I'm in a bit of a path dependency rut.

Is it possible to find and replace old highlight colors? In other words, can I make all existing red highlights yellow, or vice versa? If not, is this an easily implementable feature?
  • abaevbog Zotero Team
    It's not possible yet. In Zotero Beta, annotations appear as rows in the items list, so you can see annotations across all items and filter them by content or tags. There's no way to filter them by color or edit in bulk yet - that will be possible in a future version.
  • Calorion
    It is possible now!
  • nathan.hopson
    @Calorion, that's great to hear! Can you give a step-by-step?
  • Calorion
    Hm. Rereading, this is perhaps not what you’re looking for, which is a one-time universal method. I was thinking of the color blocks of the sidebar of PDFs, where you can select all highlights of a given color and drag them to a new color to change them. But that’s one-document-at-a-time. Your idea is a worthy one.
  • nathan.hopson
    @Calorion, yes, that's a great -- and probably underappreciated -- feature for individual documents so it's good you are bringing it to everyone's attention here.

    But as you say, it's not the library-wide solution I'm looking for.

    Thanks, though!
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