Tags - what could be improved
1. Show all items that have not been tagged
I would find it very useful to see all items that have not yet been tagged. This is useful because then I can see which items I still have not looked at or maybe just forgot to tag. AFAIK this can not yet been done by a search.
2. Inverse the viewed Items
I would appreciate, if there was a small checkbox or button in the Tag Selector to inverse the results. For example if you first want to see al items tagged "todo" and then want to view all items that do not have the tag "todo", you would simply check the above mentioned checkbox/button. Sure, you could also just do a search on all items which do not have this tag, but I think it would be more convenient to have a small checkbox/button.
I would find it very useful to see all items that have not yet been tagged. This is useful because then I can see which items I still have not looked at or maybe just forgot to tag. AFAIK this can not yet been done by a search.
2. Inverse the viewed Items
I would appreciate, if there was a small checkbox or button in the Tag Selector to inverse the results. For example if you first want to see al items tagged "todo" and then want to view all items that do not have the tag "todo", you would simply check the above mentioned checkbox/button. Sure, you could also just do a search on all items which do not have this tag, but I think it would be more convenient to have a small checkbox/button.
Example: I import a bunch of items from some online library catalogs. Zotero adds some LC tags to go with those records. Fine: sometimes this is very helpful. Every so often, though, I need to go through my tags to weed out the many useless or redundant tags that have appeared (e.g. "United States" is not a helpful tag for me, and "Thomas Alva Edison" gets the abbreviated tag "TAE" in my collection). If it were possible to delete and rename tags more expeditiously, it would make the use of tags much easier for me.
Thanks for the follow-up. I know about right-clicking to modify individual tags. What I was thinking of was something easier for managing lots of tags at once, i.e. not having to confirm deletion of each tag each time and not having to mouse all over the place. What I was thinking of might be a list of all tags with check boxes beside each tag and you could check to delete more than one tag at once. And maybe their would be a blank field next to each tag so that you could rename multiple tags at a shot too.
Here's one more issue I just noticed, an alphabetization problem. In the tag box, capitalized words are alphabetized and listed before lower-case words that begin with the same letter, e.g. "Musicians" appears before "mechanical music."
Thanks,
David
Cordially,
Victor Padilla
dsuisman: The sorting issue should have been fixed in 1.0.0b4.r3, released on April 28th. Be sure you're running the latest version of Zotero, available from the front page.
You mean 1.0.0b4.r5, don't you? That's what I'm running, and that's the version the changelog says was released on 4/29.
Alas, it looks like this sorting problem wasn't completely fixed.
Anyhow, I've fixed the problem on the dev branch. Thanks.
I think it could be very usefull to have a tag cloud (more common tags bigger, or first) I have hundreds of tags (most of them imported from ieee) and it has make totally unusable the tag browser, maybe using a tag cloud you can see better the more important tags (or at least the most used :)
Another improvement could be that zotero automatically adds/remove a tag that refers to the folders where the documents lives
i.e: Document: "USB tutorial" can be under "/computer/comunications" folder and at the same time under the "/microcontroller/comunication" and tagging it automatically is like "relating" with that folders in an automatic way
thanks
If possible, I'd like to see the related tab automatically populate from files that are tagged similiarly. (identically I guess). Going along with this it would be nice to have the tags queried in google sets to build tag suggestions and use that to link similar papers if the tags are not identical.
Some other goodies could be, sending the tags be to google trends (find latest stuff being talked about on that tag) and google related links to suggest stuff build your library (with the obligatory links to google scholar ;) )
And no, I don't work at google. I just exploit their free and awesome searching tools on a daily basis. :D
-J
I wish there was an option to include the tags in reports. I attach a lot of notes to my citations and it would make it easier for me to scan the reports. (This relates to the lack of functionality in notes: I'd like to be able to specify commentary versus excerpt, page number and perhaps and optional note title with the note. I think these have been requested by others and are in the pipeline. Currently I use the tags to help me sort through the notes while browsing through my library).
Instead of an "inverse" checkbox, exclusion can/should be done on a per tag basis. Possible implementation would be click select a tag while holding down shift, to "exclude" articles having a particular tag.
An example usage of would be something like:
1. select all citations tagged with "Shakespeare"
click on Shakespeare tag
tags highlighted in blue would be "Shakespeare"
remaining tags available shown would be Hamlet, Teaching, Read, Tragedy, Comedy
2. I do not want any tragedy references so "exclude select" all tragedy
shift+select click on "Tragedy" tag
tags highlighted in blue would be "Shakespeare"
tags highlighted in red would be "Tragedy"
Zotero would list all citations that are tagged with "Shakespeare" but not tagged with "Tragedy"
I'll update the inverse checkbox ticket to make this work on a per-tag basis.
- first the possibility to set lists of tags to be treated as synonyms because I find extremely boring to rename everything by hand. For example I have autotagging enabled and when I download a paper sometimes keywords are capitalized, sometime not; sometimes acronym are used etc..
- second the possibility to color code tags. As far as I know automatically inserted one are orange, the others blue.. but as soon you modify the orange one (even if you just capitalize a letter) the color changes to blue and there is no way to revert it to orange.
Tag is A
Tag is not B
I'd really love an easier way to *manage* tags en masse.
Example: I import a bunch of items from some online library catalogs. Zotero adds some LC tags to go with those records. Fine: sometimes this is very helpful. Every so often, though, I need to go through my tags to weed out the many useless or redundant tags that have appeared (e.g. "United States" is not a helpful tag for me, and "Thomas Alva Edison" gets the abbreviated tag "TAE" in my collection). If it were possible to delete and rename tags more expeditiously, it would make the use of tags much easier for me."
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Three years later, can we do ? You can put a tag on multiple items ?
Thank
I'd also like some way of managing tags (hierarchies where you can mark one tag as a child of another parent tag, eg.) but auto-suggesting would be much preferred to this request.
for author specifically I suggested the ability to ad brief bio could contain the multi form of his name
I prefer this feature to zotero to be like query builder, it build query to retrieve the item and change them and will be registered inside zotero database if it's repeated like the names as maintenance procedure someone could from time to time requested it in this case the procedure could create the bio section as a note or as section added to the item abstract, or which I prefer just link to the field inside specific column in the maintenance section added to the database this will preserve size from repeated bio to be added to every item
+1 for that suggestion.