Add a pane for PDF files management

lello

Hi,
I have been using zotero and find it a very useful application.
What I miss now is an easy interface to add a pdf file to a reference.
In this moment I open my PDF directory in firefox and then drag and drop files
to the references. However I have many files and the horizontal split in not really
nice.
It might be useful to add the possibility to navigate through files with a new vertical pane, and of course with drag and drop possibility.

Lello.

Jon Rubin

I'm not sure if this solves your problem or not, but, in Windows at least, you can use Firefox as a file browser. Type e.g.

file:///Some Drive/Some Directory

into the navigation bar you can then see your pdf or whatever files are in the directory which you can then drag onto your references.
I'll admit I only thought of doing this recently, previously mucking about with a separate explorer pane and Firefox was a nuisance. I've found myself using Zotero's own storage ability more and more though for portability and other reasons.
Jon.

shekhar

Management of panes and sidebars is something which we are working on in a future version of Zotero. See http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/222/sidebar/

Right now you can attach a PDF to any reference as either a snapshot from within the browser, or as an attachment by browsing your file system.

As Jon mentions, you can also navigate your file system in Firefox at file:// and find your PDFs and just drag them into your references in Zotero.

sybille

If navigating the file system with Firefox seems a useful alternative for you, it might make things even easier if you add a bookmark for your PDF folder to your Firefox bookmarks.

You can use such a bookmark to open the PDF folder, and then if you leave the folder open in a tab, you can drag and drop PDFs from the list directly onto Zotero entries with no navigation needed.