除文献条目和文件附件外,您也可以在Zotero文献库中存储笔记:隶属于某一条目的子笔记或独立的笔记.笔记与条目的元数据一起同步,具有可搜索性,笔记内容格式支持HTML格式化(Zotero使用TinyMCE HTML编辑器来编辑笔记).

要创建子笔记,首先在中栏中选中条目;然后点击中栏顶部的“新建笔记”按钮(并选择“添加子笔记”,或者在右栏的“笔记”选项卡中点击“添加”按钮.此外,您也可以在条目上点击右键(苹果系统上用Ctrl+点击),然后在弹出的菜单中选择“添加笔记”.

新添的笔记作为对应条目的附件存在(可以在“笔记”选项卡里查看),右栏中将出现笔记编辑器.点击笔记编辑器底部的“在浮动窗口中编辑”按钮,笔记编辑器将获得独立的窗口.

Standalone notes work the same as child notes, but are not directly related to any item in your library, and will appear alongside any other items in your library. To create a standalone note, click the “New Note” button and select “New Standalone Note”.

With Zotero for Firefox, you can also create notes directly from the webpage you're visiting in Firefox. Highlight the text you want to copy into a note, right-click (ctrl-click on OS X), select “Zotero” in the pop-up menu, and select “Create Zotero Item and Note from Selection”. This will create a new “Web Page” item in your library for the visited webpage, with a note containing the selected text.

As with any other item in Zotero, notes can be tagged and related to other items. Both features can be accessed via the bottom of the note editor.

While it is not possible to search notes while using the note editor, their contents is searchable by using the regular Zotero search. To search the text of a single note, there is a workaround for Zotero for Firefox: right-click the note, and select “Generate Report from Selected Item…”. The note report, which will open in the current Firefox tab, can then be searched using the standard Firefox text search tools.