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jlegewie / zotfile

Zotero plugin to manage your attachments: automatically rename, move, and attach PDFs (or other files) to Zotero items, sync PDFs from your Zotero library to your (mobile) PDF reader (e.g. an iPad, Android tablet, etc.), and extract PDF annotations.
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Feature request: Export notes as MD files #486

Open trungng2006 opened 4 years ago

trungng2006 commented 4 years ago

I think it would be nice if Zotfile can export the notes into MD file. Each highlight is 1 MD note with metadata integrated. Or better yet, could you help adapt zotfile into MD program like Obsidian plugin?

mivanit commented 4 years ago

i've long wished that zotero supported notes in markdown rather than whatever the current format is. Such a utility would also allow the markup of notes to be preserved in a human-readable way when exporting to bibtex. What format does Zotero store notes in internally? Converting most things to markdown is fairly easy. One issue might be is markdown relies on links to external images, while Zotero allows images inline in notes (although it doesn't allow syncing of these notes, for some reason).

nathanlesage commented 4 years ago

I would suggest we don't implement this, because the default Zotero-editor is still the RTF/HTML-editor, and I think Zotfile should deal with this. However, there's a new plugin in the hood which facilitates exporting notes to MD easily, and there's active development, so this would be the better way.