The ability to add comments and tags to highlighted text in the lefthand pane.ġ.
When I select text with my cursor, a range of highlight options pop up.Ĥ. Not needing to switch on the highlighter. I hate a busy desktop, one less application I need to open now.ģ. Even if I'm not annotating, this is a great way to review documents. The ability to have multiple PDFs open and they are tabbed. Now, I can just go to the Previewer, click the Parent Item icon and view/update all in the one window!Ģ. This used to mean switching back and forth between my PDF reader and Zotero to update the info. Or, the only option is to save the PDF without a parent item. Often, a page will not have any/all of the meta data needed for the connector and I need to update the parent item. The ability to update Parent Items in the Previewer. I just came across this today after seeing a tweet from Sean Takats, guys this is brilliant!!ġ. You don't actually need to create a highlight first if you don't want to.) (Also, semi-related, and since I haven't mentioned it elsewhere: Zotero lets you drag selected text directly into a note to create a cited quote. Some PDF readers put copy buttons in the selection popup, but that seems pointless and distracting to me - computers are full of text that you select, and people know how to copy it. (All annotations, including highlights, can have comments.) You only need to switch to the highlighter mode if you want every selection to create a highlight.Ī note annotation gets placed at a point on the page, not on specific text (which would be a highlight), so that wouldn't be appropriate on selection. To be clear, you can already select text and create a highlight without switching into highlighter mode. Select text > select what you want to do with it (copy, highlight, create annotation, create new page note, add related citation. I think a similar approach to selecting text would work well here. That way, there's really only one default tool (just a cursor that selects text, which maybe switches to crosshair selection with +shift), eliminating the need to switch between tools at the top of the reader, which I found to be disruptive to my reading/annotating flow, especially when I've selected the highlight tool and all I really want to do is copy some text or idly highlight words.Īnother thing, on MacOS: Cmd+Z to undo a highlight would be really nice.Īt any rate, this is a really promising addition. Sometimes it's just me, idly selecting text because it's a habit. Sometimes it's a text annotation, sometimes it's just a highlight. I've become quite accustomed to annotating PDFs with Hypothes.is, and one thing I really like with that is that I'm given options about what to do when I select text.
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