Import hotkey possibilities?

clehrich
I love Zotero -- an academic's dream come true! Unfortunately, I retain my intense dislike for point-and-click from old IBM-PC days. I'm wondering if there is a way to avoid having to stop what I'm doing and go clickety-click every time I want to import a reference.

So far as I can tell, the only keystroke automation available automatically is Ctrl-Alt-Z to open/close the main screen.

I tried a little iMacro script, but that can't read outside the browser window and thus cannot see anything I do in Zotero.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
  • Tjowens
    There are several other keyboard shortcuts.
    See http://www.zotero.org/support/keyboard_shortcuts

    But I don't believe there is a shortcut for either capturing items from the location bar or creating an item from current page. If there is consensus that these would be useful shortcuts I can open a ticket.
  • clehrich
    Thank you for the list -- I don't know how I missed that.

    It's funny, I'd have thought it was more or less the most useful -- or perhaps second most useful -- possible shortcut. I'm in a library catalog or whatever, and I get an entry that I want, and I just do it without having to click up outside the frame.

    Maybe I use these catalogs oddly, or maybe everyone's a Mac-and-mouse person? I find that I tend to do as much as possible by calling down menus with keystrokes, or using key shortcuts, or whatever.

    If it's just me who's an old-fashioned freak, though, have you go any suggestions for a workaround or something?

    Thanks!

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