Hey everyone!
I just wanted to let you know that I’ve completely updated my template, merged annotations and notes back together into one big literature note, and have moved it into a template repository. You can find the new version here: obsidian-templates/zotero.md at main · lguenth/obsidian-templates · GitHub
I’m really happy with this approach. Index at the top, then a brief metadata box and the annotations at the bottom, grouped by headings so you can collapse them. Also using callouts now instead of bullet points because I find it easier to select & copy quotes from them.
Features:
- Handles both the Zotero colors from the built-in PDF viewser as well as the color categories added by the ZI plugin. This fixes the issue with Zotero’s purple color being grouped as “Blue”, for examples.
- Annotations are grouped by colors, with custom headings for each. And: You can choose a custom sort order for them, so if you want main ideas first and caveats/tasks at the bottom, you can do that now. They’re not ordered by their appearance in the paper anymore.
- Identifies two annotation categories (highlight or image). If you want strikethroughs/underlines etc take a look at mgmeyers template, for example.
- All the usual stuff like persisting old annotations and only addings new highlights on re-import.
- Doesn’t overwrite the note/index and metadata section at the top at re-import!
Here’s what that looks like:
