Feature request: colours and tags
Hello all,
I've got feature request(s) regarding coloured tags.
(1) It would be amazing to be able to select my own 9 colours (or just get a broader choice of more primary colours)
(2) It would be amazing to be able to assign more than 9 colours (even if those then didn't have shortcuts, even more amazing would be additional shortcuts, such as plain letters->See next message.)
(3) It would be amazing if the bottom-left tag window has a 'remove colour' option in the right-click menu (so you don't have to go to the main menu)
(4) It would be amazing if it was possible to drag tags from bottom left into middle pane to add tag to one or several selected items.--> Not needed.
Not really as a feature request, but as food for thought:
(5) Could the bottom-left tag window has an 'assign next available colour / key' option in the right-click menu (so you don't have to go to the main menu)?-->Not needed
(6) Would it be feasible to be able to label the little colour block (that appears in front of the item) e.g. with a letter or a number? I.e. in the colour selection menu, also be able to add a letter (or even a short string, that lengthens the block)? Or show the first three characters of the tag? That could be helpful, esp if there were more colours...
Thanks!
Bjoern
I've got feature request(s) regarding coloured tags.
(1) It would be amazing to be able to select my own 9 colours (or just get a broader choice of more primary colours)
(2) It would be amazing to be able to assign more than 9 colours (even if those then didn't have shortcuts, even more amazing would be additional shortcuts, such as plain letters->See next message.)
(3) It would be amazing if the bottom-left tag window has a 'remove colour' option in the right-click menu (so you don't have to go to the main menu)
(4) It would be amazing if it was possible to drag tags from bottom left into middle pane to add tag to one or several selected items.--> Not needed.
Not really as a feature request, but as food for thought:
(5) Could the bottom-left tag window has an 'assign next available colour / key' option in the right-click menu (so you don't have to go to the main menu)?-->Not needed
(6) Would it be feasible to be able to label the little colour block (that appears in front of the item) e.g. with a letter or a number? I.e. in the colour selection menu, also be able to add a letter (or even a short string, that lengthens the block)? Or show the first three characters of the tag? That could be helpful, esp if there were more colours...
Thanks!
Bjoern
(1) Able to select my own 9 colours
(2) Able to add a UTF character to the coloured dot in the middle pane (e.g., in the colour selection menu, also be able to add a letter)
(3) Assign more than 9 colours (even if those then didn't have shortcuts)
(4) It would be amazing if the bottom-left tag window has a 'remove colour' option in the right-click menu (so you don't have to go to the main menu)
The colours synchronise across users of a library, so a hidden pref might not work. I wonder whether some of this could be done with an extension? (@emilianoheyns ?)
E.g. (1) could a plugin be able to change existing colours for new colours, even if that was a local (hidden) preference?
(2) Would a plugin be able to add 'decoration' to the existing colours dots? E.g., Trello can do patterns ontop of the colours. I think a character ontop of the colour would be great.
(3) Would a plugin be able to add extra colours to tags (as a local preference), again, without sync?
Certainly (1) and (2) would be great from an access perspective, and I think there's an argument for Zotero to include those. Item (3) might be more of an extension thing.
Or better yet an organizing structure similar to Adobe bridge or lightroom where you're able to add colour labels and ratings from 1-5, and the sort feature can sort by ranking, ranking and higher, ranking and lower, one or multiple colour labels, positive flag, and negative flag.
I really think this is the largest gap in Zotero right now (other than a decent multiplatform app with pdf syncing; papership is hurting)
It would be really good to have this - it's also an accessibility issue.
Also, mouseover for the tags to show the tag name would be nice.
And when tags have no color, there's no quick way to identify which items in the central pane happen to have a particular tag or tags, which greatly undermines the utility of assigning them in the first place.
The argument that I've read a few times that more colors "could lead to more clutter" is just not an argument for me. If it leads to more clutter for you, don't use them. For me it 100% declutters everything and makes Zotero way more powerful to use.
That more colors could have some difficult "behind the scenes" implications: ok, i get that.
And with the risk of sounding ignorant: it cannot be more difficult to implement the ability to use more colors than it is to implement a full on Adobe bridge like rating/flagging/... system???
This plugin assigns a new column for tags. Hopefully, it would not be too hard to support more colors(Or it already can do that, not sure).
Also, the plugin offers the ability to have different views for the middle pane: That's a useful feature that I would love for Zotero to support natively.
Thanks for the recommendation!