Show if in collection
When in My Library view, there is no way to see if an item already belongs to any collection or not.
It would be handy to either be able to set the default collection (I could use InBox or so) so we know where to look for notes that still need to be processed, or to be able to have a column with an asterisks or whatever to denote an item has been added to one of the collections.
It would be handy to either be able to set the default collection (I could use InBox or so) so we know where to look for notes that still need to be processed, or to be able to have a column with an asterisks or whatever to denote an item has been added to one of the collections.
A similar concept might also work for Zotero.
Uses Option/Alt for Mac/Linux, Control for Windows (because Alt alone selects the menu bar on Windows). Triggers after a brief (1/4-sec) delay to avoid presses that are part of keyboard shortcuts.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Thanks again!
Regarding
"I implemented highlighting of collections containing selected items on the development branch. It'll appear in the next release."
Sorry if I'm being a bit thick, but I'm running Zotero Version 1.0.0rc5 under Windows and I've tried all combinations of Ctl and Ctl-Alt etc with an item selected or while clicking on an item in My Library and I can't get the associated collection to be highlighted.
Can you give more detail on how this functionality is used, preferably with an example. Or have I not got the correct Zotero version ?
Regarding long term implementation of this feature, my thoughts are could it be a menu item on the right click menu.
Then from either the My Library listing or in search results, simply right click on the item and select something like "Show my Collection". With a simple message returned if it doesn't belong to a collection.
BTW: Zotero is an absolutely fantastic tool please keep up the good work.
Cheers
Ray
For future functionality, a simple improvement would be to add a column along with Title, Creator, Year, etc to represent the number of collections the current item is in. That way, I could sort by this in My Library and quickly put those items into sub-collections, or easily create a saved search to grab all items with 0 collections.
Thanks for a great tool, this is exactly what I was looking for!
A better long term solution would be a popup list with all collections an item belongs to with a button to go to whichever Collection the person is interested in inside the Collection pane.
Other than that - nice work guys - viva la Scrapbook!
Zotero 1.0.4 - Firefox 2.0.0.14 - WinXP SP3