Using and adding notes
Record your thoughts and highlight text using notes. Import them into your documents.
Annotations and notes
You can easily add annotations to notes right from the PDF reader.
First, use the Notes button in the top-right corner to open the Notes pane, where you can create a new note or open an existing note.
To create a new note from all annotations in the current PDF, click one of the “+” buttons and select Add Item Note from Annotations or Add Standalone Note from Annotations.
If you already have a note open in the Notes pane, you can drag individual annotations from the PDF or from Annotations tab in the left-hand sidebar as you type your note. Alternatively, you can select one or more annotations in PDF or in the the Annotations tab of the left-hand sidebar, right-click one of the annotations, and select Add to Note.
You can also drag annotations from the PDF reader to a note that's opened in a separate window.
If you're sure you won't use a quote more than once, it's also possible to add quotes to Zotero notes without creating an annotation first. Simply select text in the PDF and drag it to an open Zotero note.
Annotations added to notes aren’t just plain text: they include information about the source PDF that lets you quickly jump back to the original page to see context, generate bibliography entries using Zotero’s word processor plugins, toggle annotation colours on and off, include links back to Zotero when exporting to Markdown, and even restore accidentally deleted citations to make sure you’ve properly attributed a quote.
Adding notes to documents
Zotero allows you to add notes directly to a document. Select Add Note.
Search for the note you want to insert.
The notes are inserted into the document, with formatted citations.
Putting images in notes
You can save images in the notes for a PDF, add a citation, and create captions that you can use for referencing images in your work.
Add the note to a Word document
Zotero will insert the caption, image and citation into your document.
