Upgrade Storage"Save to Zotero" - with or without associated pdf
Currently the "Save to Zotero" button in Firefox will either save or not pdf files associated with a specific page/article depending on a setting under Edit ->Preferences->General->File Handling.
I would find it useful for the "Save to Zotero" to come in two versions, with and without saving attachments. I was wondering whether such a solution exists or is being considered.
Thank you in advance for your answer.
I would find it useful for the "Save to Zotero" to come in two versions, with and without saving attachments. I was wondering whether such a solution exists or is being considered.
Thank you in advance for your answer.
This would take the place of the "with snapshot" and "without snapshot" options that already appear for webpage saving. Expanding this to PDFs and possibly tags, it wouldn't work to show all possible combinations of settings for each translator.
But I wonder if we can do better, since having to toggle settings before saving would still be fairly annoying. It might be possible to allowing some of these things to be toggled from the save popup. (You can switch the target between a library that allows file attachments and one that doesn't, so Zotero already has logic to add or remove files after the translation process has started.) But we'd need to do some UI work to see if we could integrate these options into the popup without making it overly complicated.
If we can get the UI right, I think making these things toggleable from the active save popup is going to be our best option. Failing that, toggling these options from the context menu before saving would at least be an improvement over the status quo.
Add a toggle control to the Zotero "My Library" tab. On: attaches associated files. Off: does not. Click the toggle control to change the setting.
Alternative: In the Connector (Chrome, etc.), have the icon show the setting, perhaps with or without a down arrow. Perhaps even allow the setting to be toggled by right-clicking on the icon and selecting a choice to toggle the setting.
In this would clutter the interface for typical users, make it an option.
In Zotero settings, under "Automatically attach associated PDFs and other files when saving items", provide an option to "Display toggle control".