Search in annotations and full text search in free plan?

[rdiaz02]

Amazing plugin!!! Thanks!!
A suggestion for enhancement and a question.

• Enhancement: would it be possible to search the annotations? For example, I sometimes mark specific highlights with annotations such as "CITE IN X" or "THINK FOR Y". It would be great to be able to ask complex questions like that take into account the annotations.
• Question: it is unclear to me, from https://www.beaverapp.ai/pricing, if, under the Free plan, searches involve the full text. "Full-text search. Keyword and semantic search across the full content of processed PDFs (...)" is listed in the Pro (Beta) column. But under the Free plan we see "Answers link to the specific page of the source PDF." which suggests to me the full text is searched and, from my testing, it does seem that the full text is searched.

[jlegewie]

Glad you like it and always happy to hear any feedback.

Search for annotations: There are still two important Zotero item types that are not supported: notes and annotations. Right now, Beaver cannot search for them or edit them. Support for both is coming. Not sure about the timeline though. Might still take a little.

Item Search: In the Free plan, search is only on the item level. That means Beaver can find items by metadata or on specific topics but it cannot find specific paragraphs across your library. However, after finding an item with item search, Beaver can read the full content or specific pages (you should see something like "Reading..." with information about what exactly Beaver is reading including the exact pages). That is also where the page-level citations come from. The process is find item by topic or metadata -> read relevant attachments -> cite relevant pages and it works surprisingly well. In beta/pro, Beaver can also do find all paragraphs across my library that talk about X and then cite specific sentences. Hope that all makes sense.

[rdiaz02]

Thanks a lot for your detailed reply.

Search for annotations: Great; looking forward to it.

Item search: Understood, thanks for the explanation. That makes a lot of sense. And I guess that the fact that it worked so well made me believe that full text was being used since the very first "find items" step. (I'll be paying attention, though, for when the "Pro" opens up, for the sentence/paragraph-specific searches, which looks even nicer).