My Note Making Flow zylstra.org
@ton It is always interesting to see the workflows of other people. (I know, I should really write a post about mine).
This caught my eye, since I ran into the same issue:
Until last week’s Zotero update I could easily grab those highlights and notes using a plugin and save them in markdown into my Obsidian notes vault. The update broke the plugin, so that flow is temporarily out of order.
I assume you're talking about the ZotFile plugin.
One of the reasons the latest Zotero update broke the plugin is because Zotero has not a built-in feature to extract annotations from a PDF file. You can access this function from the Notes sidebar in the built-in PDF reader. Just click on the + button next to Item Notes and select “Add Item Note from Annotations”.
@jeroensangers Indeed, that's the issue. I use Zotfile, and then 'MDnotes for Zotero' plugin to pull it into Obsidian. It's that last one that no longer works. I think because Zotero now stores the highlights/annotations in its database, whereas it was previously stored in the PDF, where MDnotes would grab it. I'll experiment with what to do until MDnotes gets its own update