I see that there is a new pdf reader preview (https://www.zotero.org/support/pdf_reader_preview) that may facilitate this, but some of the comments I've seen suggest I also need Zotfile (https://forum

I have recently started using Zotero with ZotFile to manage and annotate PDFs. I am still trying to figure out a workflow/best practices for keeping things organized, and I was hoping for some input f

Note Zotfile only works for files attached to items, not for top-level files.

I have recently installed Zotfile. New citations save PDFs to my stipulated custom location. How can I move attachment files for existing citations though?

If I want to keep my annotations, I can't use ZotFile to move files, so I'm not sure how to move them instead. If I copy a pdf attachment for an item from the Zotero storage directory to my Google Dri

For (2), that's not what the Linked Attachment Base Directory does (as explained there). Only ZotFile will move files.

Thank you, that makes sense. I think I have two problems with the Zotero stored files renaming, which made me use ZotFile instead:

ZotFile hasn't been updated since the Zotero beta came out and will indeed currently delete any existing annotations. We can only vouch for the built-in functionality.

and I can edit them. After importing, I use ZotFile to achieve (2): rename and move all pdf files to my Google Drive folder. Indeed, ZotFile's "rename attachments" functionality gets all my files nic

Just as a word of caution, there's a good chance that ZotFile's extract annotation feature will stop working in the future. Not on purpose, obviously, but the plugin is not very actively maintained an

@dstillman I read the session. I realized that it is possible to take the notes and move them out of Zotero. However, annotations made in Zotero are not incorporated into PDF, which is a universal for

beta can extract PDF annotations, as can the ZotFile plugin. [JavaScript Error: "Upload request 1/YZKH4BAS failed"]

In particular, I would be curious to know whether it supports ZotFile and Zutilo, as those provide essential features to Zotero.

At this point, with Zotfile, I just do copy/paste from the comment, and that picks up the zotero://open-pdf hyperlinks. Some kind of an export functionality would require sending the comments to an ex

Hyperlink the page number with a zotero://open-pdf URL, you mean? The extraction itself certainly isn't going to do that. Those URLs were always primarily just a hack in ZotFile to let extracted annot

Yes, I realize that you can jump to the comment location through the Zotero interface itself, but the type of qualitative analysis I do across multiple documents in preparation for a literature review

1) I am using ZotFile to rename PDFs based on their Citation Keys (generated by Better BibTex), and since I (mentally) refer to an item by its Citation Key, it is hard for me to find the paper I am lo

collated quotes. I need the hyperlinks that Zotfile produces so that I can easily click and jump over to the source PDF directly to the correct page number.

and stylus-friendly. Third, I went back to using Zotfile to extract comments because I needed the hyperlinked references after the extracted comments. My workflow with comments involves copying the e

btw, the Extract Annotations feature of Zotfile is amazing b/c it puts all your annotations into a single file. Do you think DT's annotation capabilities are clunky compared to annotating in Acrobat a