Avoid items showing up in root of My Library

sserebrinsky

I have only the default library, My Library.
Every item that I add with Zotero Connector goes there.
I know I can add collections and subcollections.

I would like that items I click&drag from My Library to anywhere else not show up anymore in My Library. Otherwise, it becomes very difficult to use that as a sorting method, as items I already "sorted" are still there.
Is that possible?

If not, is there a reasonable alternative method to sort items?

I thought about creating a "dummy" collection, and have all items go there, to use it the way I meant to use My Library.
That would be a possible workaround.
But for this to work, I would need any newly added item to automatically be added there.
Is that possible?

bwiernik

The Unfiled Items special collection in the collections list gives all of the items not in a collection. If it’s not visible, right click on My Library and select it.

sserebrinsky

Great. That is the answer!

Gurdas_Sandhu

Also, just FYI, Zotero's browser connector will add new items to whatever collection is selected. So, if you are working on a certain topic for which you have a collection and plan to drag-drop items to that collection later, just select the collection before you add items and they'll show up there (and not show up in Unfiled).

bwiernik

You can also change which collection/library an item saves to from the popup that appears when you save to Zotero.