Standalone + Firefox connector : No "save to zotero" option?
Hi,
Due to the upcoming changes I thought I'd get ahead of things, and have moved from Firefox for Zotero to Zotero Standalone (v4.0.29.17) and the Firefox connector (v5.0.7).
I still have a button to save things to Zotero when there is a known translater, which works.
However, when saving a file from the web (such as a PDF) there used to be an additional option in the Firefox save dialog - along with "Open File", "Save file", etc., to "Save to Zotero". This would simply save the file as a new item and automatically do a Google Scholar search for metadata. This was very useful for "naked" PDFs that weren't accessed through a journal website.
Is it intended that this option should still exist? If so, can you help me get it back? If not, please can this be considered a RFE?
Thank you.
Due to the upcoming changes I thought I'd get ahead of things, and have moved from Firefox for Zotero to Zotero Standalone (v4.0.29.17) and the Firefox connector (v5.0.7).
I still have a button to save things to Zotero when there is a known translater, which works.
However, when saving a file from the web (such as a PDF) there used to be an additional option in the Firefox save dialog - along with "Open File", "Save file", etc., to "Save to Zotero". This would simply save the file as a new item and automatically do a Google Scholar search for metadata. This was very useful for "naked" PDFs that weren't accessed through a journal website.
Is it intended that this option should still exist? If so, can you help me get it back? If not, please can this be considered a RFE?
Thank you.
Thanks for the info.
Just to reiterate, though, you can replace this pretty easily as long as you turn on native PDF viewing in Firefox. (It's on by default.) When you do, PDFs will display in-browser initially, and you can use the Zotero save button on those. If you want to open them in another program, there's a download button in the toolbar of the PDF viewer.
The Zotero save button won't currently trigger metadata retrieval automatically, so there's an extra step back in Zotero, but we hope to be able to make that automatic in the not-too-distant future.
A right-click save option for PDF links is also planned.
I just wanted to let you know that Zotero and the support you provide is amazing.
The drag solution you just mentioned works like a charm (but it is not intuitive so thanks for pointing it out!), and the right-click will even be more useful since I/we won't need to resize the zotero and browser windows to drag and save the link.
Since we are talking about right-click saving, I am going to add my penny: there could be 2 options: one to save into the "working directory" (i.e. the directory you last visited within zotero) and another save option which let you choose into which directory you'd like to save the link (many times I come across stuff that you'd like to keep elsewhere than the directory I am working on/populating with articles).
Congrats for the good work and thanks again.
Best
Aleix
I can confirm this shortcut works on Linux! (at least on Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity)... Amazing shortcut tip! Thanks.
> In an upcoming connector version (and currently in beta), you'll be able to choose any library or collection to save to from within the connector, without switching to Zotero first.
OK, but the idea of having the two options still appeals to me in the sense that sometimes I do a literature review and I am putting everything in the same folder, so it will save me time just to send it to the "working directory". I am making the key assumption that saving to the working directory is only "1-click" while choosing another one is at least "2-clicks". I guess that if the connector provides you with the working directory option first (and,e.g., not the home directory of "my library"), you would be solving this issue and you would not need 2 save options. Does that make sense?
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elementsLast suggestion (I tried to edit the wiki but I did not have the rights): you could add the tip Dan mentioned earlier to https://www.zotero.org/support/getting_stuff_into_your_library: Thanks a lot!