Highlighting duplicates

sneeky33

Is there any that Zotero can highlight duplicates outside of the "duplicate items" folder? Perhaps with some sort of marker or symbol. And even better would be if the duplicate could be easily merged on the spot.

I think this would save time and reduce redundancies of reading and taking notes on an article only to realise halfway through that you've already done it for the duplicate.

RamonMi

The Zoplicate plugin might be useful for you.

sneeky33

I just downloaded it and tried it. It has some great features, like bulk merging :)

But I was more thinking, some kind of indicator next to a file that tells me it's a duplicate, maybe an icon next to it in the main menu or a colour highlight. That way I'll know to check whether I have already made notes or markings on the duplicate before I go through and do the same to the file, wasting quite a bit of time.

mjthoraval

You can use an emoji tag for this: https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#emoji_tags
Create the emoji tag with the emoji you like, go to the Duplicate Items collection, select all items, drag them to the emoji tag you have created. All the current duplicates will show the emoji in the items list.

sneeky33

That's creative, but it wouldn't be automatic for new downloads. It's better than nothing though, so thanks for the suggestion. Now just to decide which emoji to use... ;)