Upgrade StorageDistinct indicators for different types of attached links
First, kudos to the Zotero team for the great additional features in the recent release. I like the way that the default UI distinguishes between attached links (by displaying a blue dot) and child notes (by displaying the number of notes).
My request is that there would be an additional way to distinguish between _types_ of attached links. In the current implementation a blue dot appears when there is either a link to a URL _or_ a link to a file. I would like some indication of which type of link exists for the record in question.
I add most of my records by using the web translator. This results in a link to the URL from where I got the information. That is fine. However, what is most important to me is the files I have attached to each record. If I have a file attached, then I know that I have some version of that record in full-text format. I would like to be able to look at Zotero and easily determine which records have _files_ attached and which do not.
My request is that there would be an additional way to distinguish between _types_ of attached links. In the current implementation a blue dot appears when there is either a link to a URL _or_ a link to a file. I would like some indication of which type of link exists for the record in question.
I add most of my records by using the web translator. This results in a link to the URL from where I got the information. That is fine. However, what is most important to me is the files I have attached to each record. If I have a file attached, then I know that I have some version of that record in full-text format. I would like to be able to look at Zotero and easily determine which records have _files_ attached and which do not.
But I'm guessing by "link to a URL" you mean "HTML snapshot"? Those are technically files, and so the dot does show up for those, because the dot exists partly to accompany the new on-demand download functionality, showing you whether a synced file (of any type) exists locally. When you see a PDF icon from a translator, those are really just snapshots (what we call "imported URL attachments" internally, as opposed to "linked URL attachments") too—we just display a different icon for PDFs.
I'm not totally sure what the solution would be here, since the contents of imported URL attachments vary by translators and can contain full content (full text, image, etc.) even if they're not PDFs.