Convenience Idea: Quick search within Collection vs globally

hukkinen

Hey,

Often times I find myself searching for an Item. Then I notice I'm in a Collection and the paper wasn't there. I have to go back and select My Library. I loose the original Collection context.

Perhaps next to quick search text box could be a checkbox to opt out or in to search within Collection or globally. Compare also to the small search and replace window in Visual Studio Code, where a few options are intuitively available [case sensitivity, query replace vs replace all].

Thanks again,

Janne

Matthew-hu

I think that the fastest and best solution would be to make the search text sticky in the search box so that you could switch collections with the existing navigation and not have to retype the search text every time.

mandu-ak

Sticky search: yes please!!!

I use Thunderbird for my email and if it wasn't for sticky search I would waste so much time:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u7785014/l7hvto8u8dazy9rsduhz.png

The pin on the left makes the search sticky - when the focus changes to another mailbox (in Zotero a collection) , the search item is retained and automatically repeated in the newly focused item.