Upgrade StorageRequest: Duplicate warning
First, as always, thanks for this great software, open source and free for all!
More than once happened that I went online and downloaded a few (or dozens) of items, only to find out later that I already had those downloaded, added to Zotero and manually 'post-processed' (ie added tags, related to other items, etc.). Depending on how the items are sorted in the main list, the only moment when I realize I have been wasting my time is when I check the "Duplicate Items" folder.
It would be great if there is some way Zotero let's me know *before* that embarrassing point. I guess it is difficult that Zotero checks in real-time as we enter the item to our database. But there are maybe other options.
For every time a *new item* is added to a collection, I propose one or both of the following ideas:
1) Turn BOLD (and maybe red?) the font of "Duplicated items" in the list of collections view
2) Add a number in parenthesis showing the number of items inside the "Duplicate items" contents.
Think of the behavior of 1) and 2) as a kind of an inbox: when you enter an item which has a potential duplicate, Zotero changes the display of "Duplicate items" accordingly.
This of course assumes Zotero knows that the item being added to a collection is really "new" and not a copy which being intentionally duplicated in a different collection (ie existing item).
Now, when is a good time to check for duplicates? I presume Zotero only checks for duplicates when the user selects the Duplicate items collection, right? If so, then a new instance should be added. I don't know what would work best programmatically, but for example it could be every X minutes (user-definable) or every time the user selects any item on any collection (which means that the user is not currently entering information on the current item).
Thanks again
More than once happened that I went online and downloaded a few (or dozens) of items, only to find out later that I already had those downloaded, added to Zotero and manually 'post-processed' (ie added tags, related to other items, etc.). Depending on how the items are sorted in the main list, the only moment when I realize I have been wasting my time is when I check the "Duplicate Items" folder.
It would be great if there is some way Zotero let's me know *before* that embarrassing point. I guess it is difficult that Zotero checks in real-time as we enter the item to our database. But there are maybe other options.
For every time a *new item* is added to a collection, I propose one or both of the following ideas:
1) Turn BOLD (and maybe red?) the font of "Duplicated items" in the list of collections view
2) Add a number in parenthesis showing the number of items inside the "Duplicate items" contents.
Think of the behavior of 1) and 2) as a kind of an inbox: when you enter an item which has a potential duplicate, Zotero changes the display of "Duplicate items" accordingly.
This of course assumes Zotero knows that the item being added to a collection is really "new" and not a copy which being intentionally duplicated in a different collection (ie existing item).
Now, when is a good time to check for duplicates? I presume Zotero only checks for duplicates when the user selects the Duplicate items collection, right? If so, then a new instance should be added. I don't know what would work best programmatically, but for example it could be every X minutes (user-definable) or every time the user selects any item on any collection (which means that the user is not currently entering information on the current item).
Thanks again