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Power user
Who this is for: you have a growing library (or a team) and want it on every device, searchable, and shareable.
What you’ll be able to do at the end: sync your library across devices (and understand what storage you actually need), extract PDF annotations into notes you can write from, and run a group library for a lab or reading group.
| # | Lesson | Time | Moves milestone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Sync your library across devices | 7 min | M5 — sync set up |
| 10 | Annotate PDFs and extract notes | 6 min | E1 (extended) |
| 11 | Group libraries for research teams | 7 min | E2 (extended) |
Growing library of 400+ sources? Duplicates are the price of long-term collecting (and of imports from another reference manager). The merge workflow lives in the Getting started path — see Organize with collections and tags, which covers finding duplicates and merging them without losing collections or tags.
Why this path exists: sync, storage and PDF questions together account for 32 of the 128 questions in the support analysis — 25%. These lessons teach the decisions (Zotero storage vs. WebDAV; annotations live in Zotero, not the PDF) before they become support tickets. Milestones E1–E2 are extended milestones: they matter for long-term adoption, not first-week value.