It kind of depends on exactly what you want to set up, but you'll want to use ZotFile - zotfile.com

You don't want to do that in ZotFile at all. The changed filenames&filepaths sync via Zotero data sync. The files, obviously, sync via google drive. You want to set the relative file base directory (a

ZotFile: Move linked files on more than one device

I mean - Zotero can extract and display PDF annotations made in Adobe (and any other PDF software using standards) via Zotfile. I agree that's important. Just like Docear, Zotero expects users to rely

The Zotfile plugin certainly helps and does what it promises. However, I would like a way to map and comment further on the pdf annotations separately, say in a mind map for writing purposes. I have n

As for PDF annotations - do have a look at Zotfile (www.zotfile.com), which extracts and links to PDF annotations made with any standard PDF reader. That seems to me quite similar to what Docear is do

I'd guess that you used a buggy beta version of ZotFile.

I have another question regarding using Zotfile. Zotfile allows you to store pdfs in a custom folder location specified by the user instead of using the Zotero directory. It also allows you to create

I regularly use ZotFile's "Send to tablet" function to move papers to and from a Dropbox folder for reading on a tablet. Zotfile tracks the items that are on the tablet with a "_tablet" keyword, and c

you can insert links to PDFs - including to specific pages - in notes. Look at Zotfile, which does that on extracting notes:

Thanks. Indeed Zotfile's send to tablet functionality is useful for my purposes, although it creates/duplicates the PDFs, and I would love to handle everything from Zotero data structure.

come to think of it - even Zotfile's send to tablet functionality would be a much smoother way of doing this that what you're currently doing.

Note that Zotfile generally offers the possibility to create a folder hierarchy of PDFs based on metadata - just not on collections for the above reasons: www.zotfile.com

Doesn't ZotFile just grab the latest file in the directory by date? (At least, I think it did a few years ago — from the description it looks like it might check for multiple files now.)

As for the watched folder - I had never looked into that. ZotFile has a sort-of watched folder feature, not sure what Joscha is doing.

Zotero would by default just copy them to its data directory, each in a separate folder. It sounds like you'll want to look at zotfile: www.zotfile.com Currently, I don't have a need to use cloud sync

Many thanks again! I have now got Zotero very nicely up and running, and am really enjoying using the application (in combination with ZotFile and ZoteroQuicklook).

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/26797/problem-installing-zotfile/

odd. That doesn't look like a ZotFile issue then, since ZotFile just uses regular Zotero saved searches. Please start a new thread (include a link to here) and provide an error report ID. https://www.

This can actually be done using Zotfile through a workaround. If we send the attachments to "Tablet" and get them back, they come back renamed, and the attachment remains in its original location. <br