In the meantime, can I suggest that if you are interested mostly in reading papers, then the very handy Zotfile plugin is great: http://zotfile.com/

Any way to fix this? Zotfile renames files correctly without the period, but it's broken and always moves linked files to C:/user etc and doesn't work automatically.

"Attach Link to File") or by configuring the ZotFile plugin to create linked files. If you don't want linked files, don't add them that way, and everything will just be stored in your Zotero data dir

PDFs in Zotero database cannot be highlighted and have their content extract by ZotFile (http://zotfile.com). There is the need to run OCR first.

I'm not sure why not. The answer is that Zotfile should do it the way you set it up and to experiment with smaller groups of files. (and, if you want to, follow up with the ZotFile developer and/or on

If you are wants to extract annotations for searching in Zotero, check out the Zotfile plugin.

* integrating the Zotero notes with extracted annotations created with Zotfile with a reading list/page in Notion. A bit like readwise integration with notion. This way I could make a list of papers i

Can Zotfile do this?

As explained there, ZotFile can help sync the files with a cloud storage service such as Dropbox so that you can annotate on your iPad, and then it can extract annotations from the files into Zotero n

Yes, the ZotFile plugin can help you do that.

Papership app for ios is a workable solution for adding and annotating journal pdf zotero items on the ipad and iphone. There is an import to papership option from all browsers in the share sheet. Dur

Setting up ZotFile doesn't change your existing stored-file attachments. ZotFile can convert stored-file attachments to linked-file attachments, but you wouldn't want to do that if you already have th

I installed Zotfile and set Location of Files to /Users/me/OneDrive/Papers/ (I have a bunch of subdirectories here), and I used the same directory in Zotero > Preferences > Advanced > Files and Folder

I manage my attachment to move my attachments in group to a different location,but nothing happens while I did that in my own home , attachments can be exported to custom location

1. What should my Zotfile settings be for the 'Source Folder for Attaching New Files' – would this have to be a single and separate folder to my main thesis folder – because I'm manually saving pdfs t

Could someone please explain the step-by-step process to extract annotations in pdfs? I downloaded and installed the zotfile add on, but when I highlight within a pdf and then save it, nothing extract

No one mentioned wonderful Zotfile plugin here, it solves the problem mentioned by citenote here.

Ok, so a workaround for this is to incorporate periodical titles into PDF title with ZotFile. Then they are searchable in the iPad File app, PDF Expert, etc. Not sure if anyone needs this particular w

1. I use zotfile to store all pdfs in an external folder, then I sync the folder using dropbox

doesn't make a difference. You can use the ZotFile plugin to convert attachments to linked files in the location you specify (which should generally be the same as your Linked Attachment Base Directo