How to convert multiple notes i.e. quotations from books to clippings and maintaining the references

Vincent van Altena

How can I convert multiple notes (i.e. quotations from books) to clippings? I need to maintain the references and don't want to reselect every single note and clicking the clippings shortcut.

Vincent van Altena

How can I convert multiple notes (i.e. quotations from books) to clippings? I need to maintain the references and don't want to reselect every single note and clicking the clippings shortcut.

Dave Hooton

Clippings from Notes was not envisaged (because there is no citation), so selecting the note text will not activate Add clipping.
If I understand you correctly, you need to select the text in the source from which you quoted.

Vincent van Altena

Thanks for your response, Dave.

To clarify: It might be I am confusing Notes and highlights. What I would like to do is convert all highlights (i.e. citations) I made for a particular book to a clippings document. In stead of going over them one by one, I was wondering if this could be done automatically or in batch.

Since the highlighted text still has a referenxe to the book, there must be a reference to the text in the background, which could be easily converted, if it is exposed to the end user.

The question behind the question is, I want to export all my citations per book including page references. Until now, I only succeeded in doing so with clippings and particular reference styles (SBL HS2 e.g. does not work, but others do).

However, since I have over 8000 highlights I am eager to find a method which helps me in doing this, without going into a cumbersome process of converting each highlight to a clipping.

Hopefully that clarified my question.