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feat(menu): add export notes menu for collections#1577

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feat(menu): add export notes menu for collections#1577
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Summary

This adds a Better Notes export entry to the collection context menu. When a user right-clicks a Zotero collection, they can export notes from items directly inside that collection using the existing Better Notes export dialog.

The implementation reuses the existing export flow, so users can choose Markdown, Word, PDF, FreeMind, Zotero Note, or LaTeX from the same dialog as regular note export.

Motivation

Many workflows now involve collecting papers in a Zotero collection and exporting their notes for reading, summarization, or processing with AI tools. Previously, selecting a collection or the regular items inside it did not provide a direct way to export their child notes with Better Notes. Users had to manually locate and select the notes themselves.

Notes

  • This exports notes from direct items in the selected collection only; subcollections are not traversed.
  • The menu item is shown only for regular Zotero collections, and existing item export behavior is unchanged.
  • Existing batch export behavior may show one Note Saved to ... notification per exported note. A follow-up could add an optional quiet/batch mode and show a single summary notification, but this PR leaves that out to avoid changing broader export API behavior.

@windingwind windingwind merged commit 48b8454 into windingwind:master May 21, 2026
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🚀 This ticket has been resolved in v3.0.7. See Release v3.0.7 for release notes.

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