Research Guides: Zotero at Temple: Zotero Add Ons & AI

Zotero Add Ons

Zutilo: An easier way to manage tags and related items
Using the Zutilo add on to Zotero 6.
Note: Zutilo does not work with Zotero 7
Zotfile for Zotero 6
Zotfile to automatically rename, move, and attach PDFs (or other files) to Zotero items.
Note: Zotfile does not work with Zotero 7, and the developer will not be updating it. ZotMoov and Attanger are alternatives for Zotero 7.
Zotmoov
This is an alternative to Zotfile for Zotero 7. ZotMoov can: (a) Automatically move/copy imported attachments into a custom directory; (b) Manually move/copy imported attachments to/from a custom directory via right-clicking; (c) Automatically delete linked attachments from your computer when you delete them in Zotero; and (d) Easily attach the last modified file in a folder to a Zotero item. Zotfile cannot be used with group libraries and linked files cannot be read on Zotero web library.
Note: You can add more file formats under "Allowed File Extensions" (e.g. add hmtl to move snapshots)
Zotero 7 can rename files and annotate PDF so Zotfile and ZotMoov are not needed for these features.
Install Additional Styles
Zotero comes with several popular citation styles. You can install over 8,100 additional styles from the Zotero Style Repository.
Find more plugins for Zotero
Zotero users has developed a variety of plugins or add-ons to provide enhancements, new features, and interfaces with other programs.

Installing Plug-ins

Steps for installing a third-party plug-in

Download its .xpi file to your computer. If you are using Firefox, right click on the plugin file and "save link as."
Open Tools in Zotero and select Plugins (Add-Ons in Zotero 6)

Click the setting gears and select "Install Plugin from File."

Select the plugin file (ends in xpi) from where you downloaded the file. Activate or toggle on the plug-in, if it not already on.

AI summaries and Q&A in Zotero

Zotero does not yet have free AI tools built in, but there are a number of ways to connect other AI tools to your citation collecting in Zotero.

Using an AI assistant browser extension, such as Perplexity AI Companion or Sider AI sidebar, can generate a quick summary of key points on a webpage, which can be copied and pasted into a note attached to the citation item once you save it in Zotero.

The open-pdf Zotero add-on can help connect the AI summarization and chatbot features of PDFgear to PDFs in your Zotero library. Add any notes taken in your PDF to Zotero automatically by choosing "Add note from annotations" in Zotero's right click menu.

PDFgear
Free PDF reader and editor with chatbot features.
Zotero add-on: open-pdf
Zotero plugin that adds additional right-click menu of items to open PDFs, including opening PDFs in your viewer of choice.

The following add-ons can also connect paid ChatGPT access to a Zotero library:

Notero
A Zotero plugin for syncing items and notes into Notion. Notion Education Plus plans are free for students and educators. In Notion, a paid AI add-on can create article summaries and other data extractions.
Aria for Zotero 6
Aria is an AI Research Assistant for Zotero version 6 that works with a paid ChatGPT API key.
Aria for Zotero 7
Aria is an AI Research Assistant for Zotero that works with a paid ChatGPT API key. The version for Zotero 7 is an experimental pre-release.

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