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Some commands may not be available on Zotero mobile.

(Maybe) Useful resources #

Useful tricks #

Export annotations from PDF to notes #

kb:zotfile_extract_annotations [Zotero Documentation]

Right-click on article/PDF file▸Add Note from Annotations

Downside: It does not include text annotations.

Export notes to Markdown/HTML file #

Right-click on note▸Export Notes…▸Select format▸OK, then you will be prompted to select path and confirm.

See all collections an item is in #

How can I see what collections my item is in? [Zotero Documentation]

To see all the collections an item is in, select the item and then hold down the Option key (macOS), Control key (Windows), or Alt key (Linux). This will highlight all collections that contain the selected item.

Use outside PDF viewer on iOS #

Using an External PDF Reader with iOS App - Zotero Forums

  1. Open the PDF on Zotero and share to GoodNotes (include annotations if you already have some)
  2. Read and highlight/annotate the PDF in Goodnotes
  3. Once you are done, share from GoodNotes to Zotero (include annotations obviously)
  4. The PDF will appear as a separate entry in the library. Drag and drop it onto the original entry, and it will be moved there. Tap on ‘i’ to check that there should now be two PDFs for the same entry
  5. Delete the old PDF from that entry by long press and ‘Move to Trash’

Useful Plug-Ins #

Plugins that I have tried but did not keep
Plugins that I would like to try later

Better BibTeX #

Documentation: Better BibTeX for Zotero

Use the Format: Better BibTeX option (instead of Better BibLaTeX), otherwise the year field would not be separated from date.

My configuration:

Citation key format:         [zotero:clean]
Fields to omit from export:  file, note, keywords, abstract

Date Grabber #

Repository: retorquere/zotero-date-from-last-modified

DOI Manager #

Repository: bwiernik/zotero-shortdoi: Zotero extension to retrieve and validate DOIs and shortDOIs

My configuration:

Get DOIs for new items:     Long DOIs

QuickLook #

Repository: mronkko/ZoteroQuickLook: Implements QuickLook in Zotero

After applying fixes from the Issues (1, 2), it works with Zotero 6 well.

OCR #

Repository: UB-Mannheim/zotero-ocr: Zotero Plugin for OCR

scite #

Repository: scitedotai/scite-zotero-plugin: scite zotero plugin

Special tags column #

Repo: whacked/zotero-special-tags-column: Plugin to add a “Special Tags” column into Zotero where you can display specific, pre-defined tags

Add custom tag display mappings. I made a star-rating (well, more like moon-rating) system with it.

My configuration:

{"5-star":"🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕","4-star":"🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑","3-star":"🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑","2-star":"🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑","1-star":"🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑","0-star":"🌑🌑🌑🌑🌑"}

Use Sci-Hub as Default PDF Finder #

List of online Sci-Hub URLs: List of sci hub and libgen active urls - Verts-Luisants

Open Preferences > Advanced > Config Editor, search for extensions.zotero.findPDFs.resolvers, paste the following into Value: (credit)

{
	"name":"Sci-Hub",
	"method":"GET",
	"url":"https://scihub.wikicn.top/{doi}",
	"mode":"html",
	"selector":"#pdf",
	"attribute":"src",
	"automatic":true
}

Add Custom Lookup Engines #

References:

  1. Open ~/Zotero/locate/engines.json.
  2. Before the closing ], add the following code:
  3. Download the icon, rename and place it at ~/Zotero/locate/sementic_scholar.png.
  4. Restart Zotero.
	,
	{
		"_name": "Semantic Scholar Search",
		"_alias": "Semantic Scholar",
		"_description": "Semantic Scholar Search",
		"_icon": "file:///Users/loikein/Zotero/locate/sementic_scholar.png",
		"_urlTemplate": "https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?year%5B0%5D={z:year?}&year%5B1%5D={z:year?}&q={z:title}&sort=relevance",
		"_urlParams": [],
		"_urlNamespaces": {
			"z": "http://www.zotero.org/namespaces/openSearch#",
			"": "http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"
		},
		"_iconSourceURI": "https://www.semanticscholar.org/img/favicon.png"
	}