Feature Request: Lists (of Authors/Journals/Institutions)
I used to use Citavi before switching to Zotero.
One feature I really miss is the possibility to manage lists. What you can do is to have a list of all author entries and edit those entries, leading to changes in any object with that entry. E.g. you have two journal articles by author Jane Doe. In one article the author is J. Doe, in the other Jane Doe. The list then accordingly contains two entries. You can now edit the list to only have Jane Doe as an author and all the Zotero objects are updated so it's now Jane Doe everywhere without the need to check each article for the writing.
I'm also happy about suggestions for add-ons or workarounds regarding that!
One feature I really miss is the possibility to manage lists. What you can do is to have a list of all author entries and edit those entries, leading to changes in any object with that entry. E.g. you have two journal articles by author Jane Doe. In one article the author is J. Doe, in the other Jane Doe. The list then accordingly contains two entries. You can now edit the list to only have Jane Doe as an author and all the Zotero objects are updated so it's now Jane Doe everywhere without the need to check each article for the writing.
I'm also happy about suggestions for add-ons or workarounds regarding that!
It's such a pity that Citavi seems to be so low down on the developer's list of priorities after they merged with the NVivo developers. Even the Citavi forums are absolutely useless now and all new posts to the forums just get inundated with spam replies.
https://github.com/northword/zotero-format-metadata
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/101754/is-there-a-way-to-run-predefined-javascript-snippets-in-zotero
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/97395/is-there-any-way-to-get-a-list-of-current-tags
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/109084/export-all-author-names-from-a-folder
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/77225/to-extract-journals-names-from-the-library
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/105186/fixing-author-names-and-initials
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/77813/get-a-count-of-authors-in-your-library
Editable lists are invaluable. It just makes sense when dealing with large databases to reduce the chances of making a spelling mistake in the name of an author that is used multiple times.