Upgrade StorageSuggested feature : shortcuts or / and icons to allow expanding/collapsing the side panels
Hi everyone,
I love the new Z7, it is so beautiful and has so many impressive improvements. Thanks to the entire Zotero team for it! :-)
I would very much like to be able to expand and collapse the right and left panes with a shortcut or/and an icon.
While it is possible to resize and hide the side panels using the arrow-and-click behavior, I don't find it so easy to use.
I confess : I am very much influenced by the Obsidian features which allow this kind of behavior. Here are some screenshots of Obsidian: the icons to allow expanding/collapsing the side panels are located on the left or right sides of the opened tabs.
I've seen this post on the Zotero Forums: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/111472/zotero-7-beta-feedback-on-resize-expand-collapse-behaviour-of-the-side-panes/p1
which focuses more on the toggle capacity and other options with the side panels.
Anyway, thanks again for this wonderful tool!
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u2823213/5kglqc0f048xkrmjiavm.png
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u2823213/ypp20zbefxew41gtmb14.png
I love the new Z7, it is so beautiful and has so many impressive improvements. Thanks to the entire Zotero team for it! :-)
I would very much like to be able to expand and collapse the right and left panes with a shortcut or/and an icon.
While it is possible to resize and hide the side panels using the arrow-and-click behavior, I don't find it so easy to use.
I confess : I am very much influenced by the Obsidian features which allow this kind of behavior. Here are some screenshots of Obsidian: the icons to allow expanding/collapsing the side panels are located on the left or right sides of the opened tabs.
I've seen this post on the Zotero Forums: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/111472/zotero-7-beta-feedback-on-resize-expand-collapse-behaviour-of-the-side-panes/p1
which focuses more on the toggle capacity and other options with the side panels.
Anyway, thanks again for this wonderful tool!
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u2823213/5kglqc0f048xkrmjiavm.png
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u2823213/ypp20zbefxew41gtmb14.png
Do you regularly close and open those panes? You're not the first to ask for this — for the item pane, at least — but the main reason we didn't add an icon for the item pane in the redesign is that we don't really expect people to be regularly opening and closing it. But we may be underestimating how much people do so.
I regularly close and open those panes *while traveling* or not at home : then, I only travel with my small 13' screen computer (vs. 2 big screens at home). In such a configuration, with any Word/Libreoffice/browser windows opened, while working on a paper, *for me* it's better to be able to quickly open-close the panes, so than I can easily have a general look on all items from a collection or my general library.
But I could need to "quickly" access to an information, a summary, or other collection. This is the moment when I'd really appreciate a shortcut / icon to be able to open/hide the panes just as breathing :-)