We’re thrilled to announce the release of Zotero 6, the next major version of Zotero and the biggest upgrade in Zotero’s history. Zotero 6 introduces an array of new features to transform how you do research, including a completely new way of working with PDFs and notes.
PDF Reader and New Note Editor
With Zotero 6, you can now:
- Open PDFs in a new built-in reader within the main Zotero window, in a new tabbed interface
- Clean up metadata for items while viewing their PDFs
- Mark up PDFs with highlights, notes, and image annotations
- Add annotations to Zotero notes with automatic citations, in a powerful new note editor
- Cite other items directly in notes using Zotero’s familiar citation dialog
- Insert notes into your Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs documents with active Zotero citations for automatically generating bibliographies
- Export notes to external Markdown editors with links back to Zotero items and PDFs
Together with Zotero’s powerful saving abilities and word processor plugins, Zotero can now help you with the entire path from an interesting item online to a cited quote in your final document.
Seamless Annotation Syncing
Like all Zotero library data, the annotations you create will automatically sync across all your Zotero devices. There’s no need to close a PDF on one computer or worry about losing annotations due to sync conflicts.
In addition to annotating your own files, you can also create PDF annotations in group libraries, allowing you to collaboratively mark up PDFs with other group members and immediately see each other’s changes.
Zotero’s PDF reader syncs with our new Zotero iOS app, allowing you to highlight and take
