Manually adding sorting categories?

Hi,

I would like to use the "Extra" area under the bibliographical information for each item to indicate the location of items in my library (such as whether it is on the web, in a file on a shared server, or in a physical library containing hard-copies). Then I would like to be able to add the "Extra" criterion as a column in the middle column of my Zotero library, so that whenever I identify an item, I can also find out right away where it is located by looking at what it says in that same row under the "Extra" column. However, "Extra" is not one of the options available on the drop down menu that appears when clicking on the spreadsheet icon. Is there a way to do what I'm trying to do?

Thanks,
Tamar
  • this is already implemented on the trunk for the next major Zotero version (I believe that's still pretty unstable so I'd strongly council against using that for actual work) and will be in Zotero 3.5, but is not currently possible.

    The next version will also have color coded tags (think gmail categories e.g.) that you could use for a similar purpose.
  • Do you have an estimate of when Zotero 3.5. will be released?
  • it's been announced for this year - November IIRC with a beta a little earlier.
  • Great, thanks.
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