Add tag shortcut
In other words, how can I add a keyboard shortcut for tagging items. Could anybody help?
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https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#colored_tags
For other tags, there's no shortcut, so the best you could do currently is use the keyboard to navigate to the Tags pane — e.g., Tab, right-arrow, right-arrow, Tab, spacebar (on the Add button), add tags. The tags pane does stay open between items, though, so if you were adding tags to multiple items it would just be Tab, Tab, spacebar, add tags, and then when you're done use the arrow keys to move to another item.
You could also use some macro program that performed the above steps (e.g., Keyboard Maestro on macOS).
In terms of improving this, I could see there being a keyboard shortcut — maybe Shift-T — that would automatically select the Tags pane and activate a new row. It could alternatively show some sort of floating panel with the tags box that went away when done, which would be a bit more complicated to implement but would have the advantage of not changing the selection in the right-hand pane.
Any idea how to "back up" those super-helpful shortcuts? Does it nest under Zotoro settings? Nor do I have any clue how to "back up" Zotero settings.
I'm also interested in display some informations about tags in the main window. Maybe would it be great to have a column "Number of tags". Do you know if it's possible ?
Thanks you !
Theo