You're misunderstanding: ZotFile is an add-on that handles the extraction of annotations only. You can use (almost) any app you want to actually highlight/annotate the PDF (and Adobe Acrobat definitel

Does this ONLY work for Zotfile? I'm trying to use it with regular Adobe Pro (highlighting the file and taking notes in Adobe) but then the menu [Manage Attachments-> Extract Annotations] doesn't even

If you are ok with one Zotero note, you could use the 'pdfExtraction.colorAnnotations' preference. The extracted annotations include color labels such as "(Red)" in the text, which you could search fo

Zotfile can extract different color highlights and label them within the note. An automatic workflow that creates many notes isn’t likely because very large amounts of notes can cause performance issu

I think neither Zotero's build-in "Rename file from parent metadata" nor "Rename attachments" in the Zotfile can meet the requirement. The only way I realized is to use the plug-in named ZoteRename. H

With zotfile this is possible, but to create the link is tideous.

The ZotFile plugin does that.

The Zotfile plugin can extract annotations

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/86304/zotfile-features#latest

As an alternative to moving everything, I might suggest using Zotfile’s Send to Tablet feature to send sets of PDFs back and forth for reading.

in ZotFile and make sure to set up your Dropbox folder as the Linked File Relative Base Directory on all synced computer in the Zotero preferences.

I have adapted Zotfile 5.0.16 to produce APA output here:

Until there's an iPad app, my workflow now makes it more sensible to keep all my PDFs and other attached documents in a human-readable folder hierarchy on Dropbox (and to stop paying for storage.) Is

version => 5.0.94, platform => Win32, oscpu => Windows NT 10.0; WOW64, locale => en-US, appName => Zotero, appVersion => 5.0.94, extensions => ZotFile (5.0.16, extension), Better BibTex for Zotero (5.

Two issues: First, enabling "Use ZotFile to send..." does not make the "send to tablet" menu item to appear until Zotero is closed and re-opened. This should, at least, appear on the dialog.

ZotFile is a Zotero, not a Firefox, add-on. If you try to open it with Firefox, it will show as corrupted.

Hi there, I tried to download the ZotFile add-on, but have twice received the message that the file was corrupt. I downloaded Firefox specifically to open it, so I have the newest version and don't th

(ii) Extract these annotations via zotfile into Zotero

I have deleted the ExtractPDFAnnotations folders, reinstalled Zotfile, restarted Zotero, and installed Poppler from the advanced setting: No error message.

For issues with ZotFile's file renaming function using wildcards, see here: