Note

Development of this plugin has ceased, as Zotero has introduced it's own native dark mode in Zotero 7. Thank you for using the plugin!

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🌌 Night for Zotero 6

⬇️ Download latest version

7️⃣ Click here for the version compatible with the Zotero 7 Beta

Install by downloading the latest version

Night theme for Zotero UI & Pdf

Also adds some animations and other UI changes.

Based on the Nord colorscheme and prior work by Rosmaninho.

✨ Features

◼️ Dark UI

Easier on the eyes for those late night deadlines.

🌚 Dark-mode for PDF

It's 2022, we can change the colors of PDFs. Choice between two themes: a very dark one, and one that matches the background color.

🔁 Quick Toggle

Quickly toggle between different filters for the pdf

Screen.Recording.2022-04-19.at.14.39.11.mov

🌊 Miscellaneous UI improvements

Clean up the tab bar, add some animations here and there, get rid of all the borders.

⬇️ Install

Download the xpi from Releases. As always, if you're on Firefox, right-click -> Save link as....

Video instructions

Screen.Recording.2022-05-12.at.10.52.56.mov

Once installed in Zotero, activate it: Tools > Night Preferences, and select "Enable Dark Theme".

😢 Limitations

• Popup menus do not have proper styling on some platforms.
• currently using CSS filter functions in order to make the pdfs dark, however this is rather slow.

✅ To-do

• Make prettier, more curves. Basically redesign zotero a bit
• Add more themes
• Add user preferences
• Write contributing guide

💪 Contributing

You're help is very welcome! However, getting setup for Zotero plugin development is a bit of a pain in the ass.

What you need to do

• Download Zotero 60 ESR
• Git clone
• yarn
• do the zotero plugin stuff (expound on this)
• Launch zotero with --debugger and -somethingcaches
• Launch Firefox 60
• In Firefox, go to devtools, go to settings, click "enable remote debugging" and the one next to it that's also about debugging.
• In Zotero, go to setting, advanced, config editor, look up "debugging" and click on "allow remote debugging"
• In Firefox, click the hamburger menu in the top right -> web developer -> Connect...
• Enter localhost:6100
• Connect
• Click "Inspect Main Process"

Wow now you can finally do things.

Sponsors

If you really like Zotero Night, you can consider sponsoring me monthly!

If you donate $5/month or more, you'll be listed here and get priority for feature requests/bugfixes! (mention that you're a sponsor in the issue because i'll forget)