Support sticky note in PDF annotations

PKM-er / obsidian-zotlit

A third-party project that aims to facilitate the integration between Obsidian.md and Zotero, by providing a set of community plugins for both Obsidian and Zotero.

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Support sticky note in PDF annotations #229

Open docsez opened 10 months ago

docsez commented 10 months ago

If I just add a sticky note to the pdf in Zotero it imports to Obsidian but labelled 'Unsupported type'. Any ink annotations also import empty boxes with just a page reference - this can get messy with a lot of empty callouts in my literature note. I want to be able to import the sticky notes as 'note', but not import the ink annotations. Is this possible?

asan-emirsaleh commented 10 months ago

I faced the similar issue. I had created both ink and "sticky" notes in Zotero, but the ink annotations only has been imported. In the side panel that allowed browsing annotations, the "sticky" note was marked as "Unsupported type". I have mentioned this issue yesterday, but the mainteiners moved the thread from open issues to repo discussions section. I apologize it be the way to maintain the open/closed issues ratio at the good point thus making the repo statistics to look fine. You will see the previous discussion here - https://github.com/PKM-er/obsidian-zotlit/discussions/127

aidenlx commented 10 months ago

The sticky note as a pdf annotation has not yet been supported

The discussion @asan-emirsaleh mentioned is related to dedicated note in Zotero, which is supported but not yet documented (see update log for v1.1.0). These two issue should be unrelated.

asan-emirsaleh commented 10 months ago

Thank you @aidenlx ! Some things still remain unclear for me. It is notes classification that I would ask to clarify. As I understand:

pdf annotation - the annotation highlights and comments handled in the pdf file.
zotero reference annotation - the same highlights and comments, but mirrored in the zotero db and only could be burned in pdf via export; this type might also be bundled with tags.
zotero reference note - an independent comment that might be stored alongside the pdf file of reference as attachments and is also stored in db; is linked to the reference but is not to the dedicated part of the pdf, as annotation is.
sticky note - I have no idea what this entity is. Might it be related to the Better Notes plugin produced specific content types?

Could you please clarify what entity do you mean while saying "sticky note"? I previously have used this term for the zotero reference note. Best regards Asan

alephpiece commented 10 months ago

IMO, sticky notes are those created by Zotero PDF viewer with the "Add Note" tool.

docsez commented 10 months ago

Sticky notes are an option in pdf annotation - when viewing the pdf you can ‘highlight and add comment’ or, alternatively, ‘add a sticky note’ which isn’t linked to highlighted text.

asan-emirsaleh commented 10 months ago

There are some some issues with annotations in zotero. When I opened a file with annotations previously have been made by Mendeley and subsequentially exported, all of them appeared to be locked that was an expected behavior. After annotations has been transferred to zotero via the import command, they turned to sticky notes stored independently from the highlights. That forced me to delete all files with annotations and manually re-annotate clean copy of them. So such complex cases are not rare, there are a lot of workflows where people process text out of zotero and afterwards transfer it to the zotero environment, with optionally importing to zotero db. If developers have an idea how to overcome these kind shortcomings that would really great.