Give him an inch and he'll take a mile...

Yes, we know we were super lucky with our timing to join and to suggest group lib file saving ...and then a week or so latter, here it is. We understand it must have been in the works for sometime, but we still feel blessed.

So why not try some other ideas? :-)

Retrieve Tags.

I love the tag function, but it is a bit tedious to input as is. Ideally, I'd love to see a retrieve tags function, just like the retrieve metadata function (which is uber cool, by the way!) Retrieve Tags could even be a pan-collection option, where a search was done across the entire collection to find ALL items that contained such keywords and recorded such tags in the metafile....

or the function might suggest tags from say keywords that are sometimes listed in article or from metadata tags in the source...or some algorithm that selects rare nouns from the abstracts.

Retrieve Related Items:

And a retrieve related items could be done in a similar manner. The same or similar collection wide keyword search for adding tags could be used to say link an article with any other articles that reference it in their bibs. And the uber cool function here...way out on our wish list.... an XML like list of such up and down references of related items added to an auto spawned Report page for each item with related items.

Such related item info could then be used to generate a cool spider wed graphic of the relations in an entire library. With the right GUI, allowing cross collection item selection, it could lead to a whole ease of doing research.

And another? Common references found by in say two or more bibs of different items, but missing from a library, could be added to a Suggested Readings file, noting the ref sources.

Obviously, a lot of coding...and I'm found I was bad at coding back in the 90s.