Upgrade StoragePerson-card, keyword-description, research-outline, saved search under specific collection
Hello everybody,
I am an historian and have been looking for a good database program for my research (thesis) for a while now. Acces, Onenote, Asksam, Ndxcards, they all were not quite what I was looking for.
I just started using Zotero and so far I love it. Where Ndxcards needs you to enter information mostly manually, Zotero allows you to click and save easily and lets you combine notes with literature etc.
I would however like to request a few features:
- I am missing a person's card, where you can add information such as career, publications (linking to literature) etc.
- In scribe you have the possibility to click on a keyword and add a description, this is a very handy feature in my opinion.
- I know this one had been discussed earlier, but I would again like to request a more easy way to use Zotero for creating an outline for your research. The report function is somewhat cumbersome, since you have to add numbers to the title, while usually when you make an outline you want to manually shift and rearrange cards. Such a feature would really make Zotero the best research-tool there is.
- Finally I would like the option to place a Saved Search under a specific collection. I have multiple research-subjects in my library and then want to use the saved searches to regroup it for later chapters or articles.
Thanks for creating Zotero!!
Pauline
I am an historian and have been looking for a good database program for my research (thesis) for a while now. Acces, Onenote, Asksam, Ndxcards, they all were not quite what I was looking for.
I just started using Zotero and so far I love it. Where Ndxcards needs you to enter information mostly manually, Zotero allows you to click and save easily and lets you combine notes with literature etc.
I would however like to request a few features:
- I am missing a person's card, where you can add information such as career, publications (linking to literature) etc.
- In scribe you have the possibility to click on a keyword and add a description, this is a very handy feature in my opinion.
- I know this one had been discussed earlier, but I would again like to request a more easy way to use Zotero for creating an outline for your research. The report function is somewhat cumbersome, since you have to add numbers to the title, while usually when you make an outline you want to manually shift and rearrange cards. Such a feature would really make Zotero the best research-tool there is.
- Finally I would like the option to place a Saved Search under a specific collection. I have multiple research-subjects in my library and then want to use the saved searches to regroup it for later chapters or articles.
Thanks for creating Zotero!!
Pauline
(2) Do you mean descriptions for tags? Maybe you could tag a note that contains the description?
(3) Try drag-and-dropping notes to a word processor-- or talk to the authors of something like Scrivener about making the notes sync / portable.
(4) This is a known limitation, and the devs plan to remove this limitation at some point.