Upgrade StorageOptimizing Google Docs and Zotero
Hi,
Long-time Zotero fan here. Naturally super excited that working with Google Docs is now an option.
Myself and some of my teammates are running into a few similar issues:
- inserting citations in GDocs is pretty slow (3 secs to load the citation bar, then once the reference is selected, another 3 seconds for the text to insert. This can be up to 15 seconds for some of our users.)
- cutting and pasting text from one section to another causes the whole document to refresh (5-10 seconds in a short doc, longer in a long doc). I've tried unchecking the "Automatically update citations" box in the Document Preferences, but it didn't change.
Generally, we are using Chrome, and our documents are in the 3000-15,000 word range.
Is this normal? Any way to speed it up? Is this a Zotero limitation or a GDocs limitation?
Thanks all!
Long-time Zotero fan here. Naturally super excited that working with Google Docs is now an option.
Myself and some of my teammates are running into a few similar issues:
- inserting citations in GDocs is pretty slow (3 secs to load the citation bar, then once the reference is selected, another 3 seconds for the text to insert. This can be up to 15 seconds for some of our users.)
- cutting and pasting text from one section to another causes the whole document to refresh (5-10 seconds in a short doc, longer in a long doc). I've tried unchecking the "Automatically update citations" box in the Document Preferences, but it didn't change.
Generally, we are using Chrome, and our documents are in the 3000-15,000 word range.
Is this normal? Any way to speed it up? Is this a Zotero limitation or a GDocs limitation?
Thanks all!
Unfortunately Google Docs can be pretty slow, so this may very well be normal, but if you can provide a Debug ID from Zotero for an operation that's slow, @adomasven can take a look.
You can also compare in a new Google Doc to see how much the size of the doc is affecting it. For technical reasons, Zotero needs to process the document when copying/pasting citations to prevent Google Docs from stripping the citation link.