3 - Zotero Tutorial: Attachments & Notes

PDFs and other be conveniently attached to your Zotero references let's see how it works I'm going to import a few references from Google Scholar pay attention to the connector in the upper right of the browser to see a convenient feature you'll notice that where possible Zotero will automatically download the articles PDF and attach it to the reference in Zotero you'll notice that the references with files attached will have a blue dot in this column and a small triangle on their left click this triangle and you'll see a list of attached files indented beneath the reference the indented attached files are referred to as child items and the top-level references as parent items if the Zotero connector doesn't automatically collect the PDF you can always attach the file to your reference manually by selecting a reference and then using the paperclip icon at the top you'll have three options attaching a link to a file will point to a file located somewhere on your hard drive attaching a stored copy will create a copy of the file in zotero's folder structure which is necessary for online syncing attaching a URI will point to a file stored on the web if it has a uniform resource identifier each parent item can have multiple child items this one has to a PDF and a note what's a note you ask well it's a pretty handy feature you can take notes directly onto a Zotero reference by highlighting it and clicking the notes tab on the right pane when you add a note it will appear as a child item beneath the selected reference there are even a handy text editing features in the note itself you can add as many notes to a reference as you'd like well that's just about does it for file attachments check out the next video to learn how to use Zotero to generate citations you