Second, adding a chunk of text from the PDF to the note creates a new paragraph, rather than placing the text snippet on the current paragraph.įinally, the cursor seems to get lost when navigating the note with the keypad, especially when the cursor traverses the citation field. That can be frustrating – it reminds me of the early days when Zotero broke out of being a Firefox-only add-on and went “Standalone.” Zotero’s “snappiness” improved over time, and I imagine the same will happen here. It often gets unresponsive while I’m typing. And there are.įirst of all, the note window is pretty laggy. Bugsīeing beta software, I understand that there will be bugs. In fact, these new features are so rich, I feel as though I’m barely scratching the surface. When I opened a PDF I was reading on a laptop at home on a second computer at work, I was dropped in exactly where I left off reading on the laptop. There’s a lot of new possibilities for library navigation now thanks to tagging sticky notes.Īnd, it looks like my location in a PDF was synced across devices. Both the highlights and sticky notes can easily be added to a separate note, as well. In addition to the new note feature, the PDF annotation system has PDF highlighting and sticky note capabilities.
Or maybe I don’t have it – I can pop into Firefox and get it easily enough. I didn’t realize how often I did that, but it makes sense: the PDF I’m reading might make reference to another source, so I might want to go back to my library to see if I have it and cross-reference ideas. What’s so cool about that is that I can easily go back to the main library and look at another source. The PDF now opens in a new tab, where I can read it and take notes. But first, I did not realize how happy one tab could make me. The Simple Pleasure of a Tabįirst of all, opening a PDF in Zotero now opens its own native PDF reader with new annotation capabililties. My quick take on the new features? They are now a key part of the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream. These are scheduled to be a part of the Zotero 6 release later this year, but when I heard about them, I installed the Zotero 5 developer version to give them a whirl.
Zotero recently announced two major new features: an internal PDF reader and tab-based navigation.
#New sticky notes unresponsive update#
UPDATE in 2022: I’ve added the ability to comment via Mastodon on this post (see below) since this post is one of the more popular ones on the blog.
Review of Zotero's New PDF Annotation Features
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