Zotero is a free, open-source reference management software that helps you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research materials from your laptop, phone and tablet.
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Zotero 10
We’re excited to announce Zotero 10, which adds a host of powerful new features for searching and managing your library, a major improvement to Read Aloud, and a new Reading Mode for PDFs.
More-Advanced Advanced Search
Advanced search is now available via a filter button in the quick-search bar, and it opens right above the items list in the main window. You can filter any view, including collections or saved searches, and immediately work with the results.
Searches are now much more powerful, with support for nested condition groups and automatic mapping of conditions across levels of the hierarchy. It’s now trivial to, say, search for top-level items with a given author AND (a descendant annotation that is either yellow OR red). For any search, you pick what result level you want to find (e.g., “top-level items” or “annotations”), and the search conditions you use will automatically be mapped to that result level. So you can find top-level items even if you’re searching for annotation content two levels below or find all annotations underneath top-level items with a given tag. Searching for attachments within collections or combining conditions across the hierarchy used to require chaining multiple saved searches, and those searches can now be represented easily in a single search.
Clicking the advanced-search button with something entered into the quick-search bar will automatically populate an equivalent advanced search. Since the advanced-search pane persists when you click between collections, this also addresses the longstanding request to be able to pin searches when moving between collections.
Finally, we’ve added various new search conditions for annotations (e.g., “Annotation Color”) and counts (e.g., “# of Notes”) as well as “is empty” and “is not empty” operators.
