Request: customise direct plain-text copying of pdf annotations

vivko
Hi,
I love the new feature of being able to copy annotations directly from the pdf, including Links to that annotation and the item.
But I'd love to customise the format in a way, so that it would fit my pandoc style - i.e. I would need the citation to be in a specific format with a citekey and the page number that links back to the Zotero annotation. Doing this by hand for every annotation that I copy directly from the pdf is destructing the workflow quite a lot...
Hope that something like this could be possible!
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    The ability to create pandoc citations via Quick Copy is planned.
  • vivko
    edited June 1, 2023
    thanks for the quick reply - still one more question:
    as far as I understood
    "Quick Copy" (citation I get when pressing cmd+shift+c)
    is still something else than
    "direct plain-text-copy" (if I copy an annotation directly from the pdf in Zotero with cmd+c - which I'd like to have in a format like "This is the annotation from the pdf" [@citekey,page](zotero://link-to-annotation))

    I can change the Quick Copy format in the preferences, but for the direct-plain-text-copy there are no settings available - or did I maybe get the concept wrong?
  • jbas26
    Seconding this. I'd love to be able to change the format for quick copying annotations. For instance the format: [@authorYYYY, p. 2](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/ABCDEFG?page=2&annotation=XYZ)

    Currently there is a workaround to do this for library items with Obsidian:

    1. In Settings > Quick Copy > Item Format choose Better BibTex Citation Key Quick Copy
    2. In Better BibTex settings > BibTexT Quick Copy > choose Pandoc citations
    2. In Obsidian use Zotero Cite Links Obsidian plugin so that a Pandoc citation (e.g. [@authorYYYY, p. 14]) can be CMD+clicked in Obsidian to open the page in Zotero.

    But this workaround can't be used with annotations because the quick copy format can't be changed to Pandoc style
  • jbas26
    Sorry, quick copying may be the wrong term here - I just mean drag and drop annotations
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