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The larger and more fine grained you library and collections become, the more difficult it is to navigate zot. Where is there documentation on best practices towards organizing and navigating large libraries of thousands of items and hundreds of collections?
Currently, I'm using special characters so that items are sorted to the top, and those items are copied into collections which then can act as pointers to related collections. This is cumbersome.
This is the best I can do to create a 'favorites' type of navigation.
Basic 'forward' and 'back' would be great to, because you can so easily get lost.
Yea, I know. There have been MANY of such requests. These are basic features.
Is there any hope of seeing these features?
Currently, I'm using special characters so that items are sorted to the top, and those items are copied into collections which then can act as pointers to related collections. This is cumbersome.
This is the best I can do to create a 'favorites' type of navigation.
Basic 'forward' and 'back' would be great to, because you can so easily get lost.
Yea, I know. There have been MANY of such requests. These are basic features.
Is there any hope of seeing these features?
A "Recently Read" collection is apparently forthcoming. Although the full forward/back functionality you allude to is really necessary. A full history list would be ideal, where you can click back to anything in your navigation history. The Navigate plugin did have very simple backward/forward keyboard shortcuts that worked quite well, but that didn't make it beyond Zotero v5.
https://github.com/jdfinch/zotero-navigate
There are several current plugins that offer some useful features ...
The Ethereal Style plugin added collection favourites and sorting in v5.3.5.
https://github.com/MuiseDestiny/zotero-style/releases/tag/5.3.5
https://github.com/Dominic-DallOsto/zotero-pin-items
Zutilo has a right-click option (click on collection name) to create a link string that can be placed in a note and can then jump to that collection.
https://github.com/wshanks/Zutilo/blob/master/docs/COMMANDS.md#collection-menu-functions
(check that the option is not set to Hide in Zutilo settings)
As you say, one can use special characters as prefixes on item titles (or the first line of a standalone note) to get them sorted (alphabetically) to the top of the collection.
With such a (prefixed) standalone note at the top of a collection, one can use "Related" in the right pane to link the note to a similar note added to another collection (or to a PDF in the current or another collection). Not quite a simple hot link between collections, but close to it. Tags are the other attribute that can be added to standalone notes, and can also be used to associate and display all such notes, and hence their collections (eg by project, or "to do").