Upgrade StorageSOLVED: How do I do find this basic search feature - or should it be a new feature request?
I'm working on chapter and book length bibliographies with Zotero. Imagine that I suspect I already have an article in my bibliography. I type part of the title into the search field at the top of the Zotero. My suspicion is correct. It pops up immediately in my columns of references.
... here is the problem...
I have 20 or so folders. Those folders are serving as subcategories in a project. I need to know what folder that article (that I just searched for and found).. is sitting in. That reference which I found is buried deep within one of THOSE folders. If I click on the reference I just found (and its showing up in that main middle column)... it highlights it red. BUT.. it doesn't show me what folder its in. I literally have to open and close all the folders hunting and pecking to find that article. This has nothing to do with finding the article to edit it. Thats easy. Search >click > edit in the right hand column. I want to search for an article and know immediately what folder or sub folder its in.
... Unless I'm missing it... there is no way to right click on an article that you just found in your search field, and choose "show folder" or show "sub folder". Or even more efficiently... would be if I merely clicked on that article that I Just searched for and found.. merely clicked its title in the center column... and immediately the folder it is in (left hand column) highlights red or dark blue or something. (in the left hand tree of folders).
Hope that makes sense.
... here is the problem...
I have 20 or so folders. Those folders are serving as subcategories in a project. I need to know what folder that article (that I just searched for and found).. is sitting in. That reference which I found is buried deep within one of THOSE folders. If I click on the reference I just found (and its showing up in that main middle column)... it highlights it red. BUT.. it doesn't show me what folder its in. I literally have to open and close all the folders hunting and pecking to find that article. This has nothing to do with finding the article to edit it. Thats easy. Search >click > edit in the right hand column. I want to search for an article and know immediately what folder or sub folder its in.
... Unless I'm missing it... there is no way to right click on an article that you just found in your search field, and choose "show folder" or show "sub folder". Or even more efficiently... would be if I merely clicked on that article that I Just searched for and found.. merely clicked its title in the center column... and immediately the folder it is in (left hand column) highlights red or dark blue or something. (in the left hand tree of folders).
Hope that makes sense.
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adamsmithhttps://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#identifying_collections_an_item_is_in
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jgentileThanks!
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