[[Complete Walkthrough]] Zotero & iPad Workflow For Zettelkasten Literature Notes

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0:00:00 What we're talking about today
0:00:49 Intro
0:01:00 Getting started
0:01:17 zotfile.com/
0:01:28 What hardware / software do i need for this workflow
0:02:30 Diving into the workflow
0:03:09 Setting up your Zotfile settings
0:06:49 Sending a file to the tablet
0:09:06 bryanjenkstech.ck.page/6bb52f9bef
0:09:54 Live example of annotating and syncing a document
0:12:23 Extract the annotations and pull back into Zotero
0:12:50 Get PDF from tablet
0:13:46 Extracted Annotations and markup are synced!
0:14:25 Closing
0:14:50 How to support the channel and Patron shout out
0:15:28 Outro

YES !!! Another great Bryan Jenks video! I just really like the workflow. I am setting this up today. Love the ability to use the iPad as the annotator for pdf's. Great job and thanks for sharing. Thanks buddy!

Bryan! Thanks for this. Much appreciated.

Bryan, thanks a lot! Your videos helped me understand the concept that I was trying to build for my study notes! Your explanations are clear and easy-to-use, thank you!

Bryan you are an excellent teacher and explaining things in detail. Cant wait for your Obsidian course

Working perfectly with Zotero on macbook pro, dropbox and Xodo pdf reader on a samsung tablet. Thanks a lot brother!

Thank you so much for your detailed instructional video! This helped me a lot with my workflow.

Yee-haw! This made me so happy

Super helpful -- I didn't know that Zotfile could be used to enable and extract annotations made on tablets. Very handy!

This is so helpful Bryan - thank you. I have just started using Zotero (on year 3 of my masters - wish I had started earlier!) Previously I have been highlighting and annotating PDFs on my iPad using Highlights app which already allows you to extract your highlights and annotations as markdown (which I paste into my lit note in Obsidian). My main database of PDFs was in Notion (very manual process). Now I am using Zotero linked to Obsidian, I think your approach makes more sense as you start by putting the PDF in Zotero - then create literature note in Obsidian that is linked to Zotero - then send PDF to iPad to read. I would still use Highlights to annotate etc (and then send back to Zotero). Your workflow is more logical than what I have been doing. Thank you again for your videos.

✏ Great job Jenks, thanks for the tutorials.

Awesome, thanks Bryan !

Simply copy-pasting the extracted annotations from the right side panel works just fine for me. Obsidian converts the rich text to markdown automaticly with no problem.
Only value Mdnotes adds is putting a ">" before the highlights.

Thank you so much for this video, you made my student life so much easier

That, is awesome. Thanks for showing how this works.

Cool workflow!

A cool approach, thanks for sharing. I personally have been splitting the screen on my iPad between Obsidian and a PDF viewer then highlighting and dragging or copypasting quotes above, then adding comments directly in Obsidian. I do have a bigger screened iPad though so maybe I'm a bit spoiled there.

Genius! Thanks so much.

Hey Bryan! I watched the live stream of your Zettlekasten work the other evening. Are going to post the video of that? I'd like to re-watch your notetaking of literature notes on scientific journal articles again. I always feel like I write too much and perhaps don't link them in the best way.

youtube lives on videos like this one. love it! didn't get what the difference btw setting up the whole tablet thing thru zotero and then send the papers to the tablet and having drive synchronization on both devises is. i just started zotero, want to make it efficient using already existing storage (google drive) without buying zotero storage (i am PhD student, i have way too many papers to work with)

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