Indicator for items already in your library

mishas
Make the import icon in the location bar when Zotero 'senses' an item different if the item is already in your library (for example highlighted similar to Firefox's star bookmark indicator). Checking against title and author is probably sufficient and should be fairly trivial. This would help with quickly going through the citations of several papers without adding duplicates to your library.
  • arggem
    Unfortunately, it seems not to be as trivial as one might think.
    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3240/duplicate-entry-warning
  • mishas
    Oh well. I understand that the duplicate records may be slightly different making it hard to be 100% sure, but i still think that a "this record looks similar to this record" message and indicator would be doable.

    Also, although i didn't search the forum, i looked extensively through the other documentation for mentions of this feature. From all the threads, maybe it's time to add this to the FAQ on the main page?

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