# Workflow for working with PDFs

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**Created:** [May 10, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/workflow-for-working-with-pdfs/103 "2020-05-10T19:15:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/workflow-for-working-with-pdfs/103/10 "2020-05-13T02:04:17Z")

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@zaeph @rgoswami, I should have searched longer before posting [about Zotero over here](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/does-anyone-have-a-workflow-for-associating-notes-with-a-zotero-stored-pdf/112/2).

Can I ask more specifically, what it looks like when you caputre a reference to zotero and hten take notes on it/

So, e.g., for me, I have a set of tabs open in Firefox. Right now what I’m doing is:

- click on the Zotero button in the browser to save to bibliography.
- click on my bookmarklet to capture to roam. THe capture links to the web page only, not to the citekey.
- open the PDF and start taking notes. For now I am mostly copy-pasting; I miss highlighting in evince or pdf-view – I have a tiny elisp fragment that will extract highlights from a PDF, and ideally that would be part of my capture template I guess.
- get the filesystem path to the PDF
- add it as a link to the note

All of this is a bit more labourious than it should be, I think, and I’ wondering if you do something more efficient. Thanks!

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