Reading List Feature

yiannis.charalambous
Hi, I created this post because I think Zotero would benefit from a reading list feature. Here is the proposed workflow:

1. You add a paper from the web browser extension.
2. A list in the sidebar (in the area where My Publications, Duplicate Items, Unified Items, Trash are at), have an option: Reading List.
3. The paper is **automatically** added to that.
4. It is basically a list that you can check papers off of, and then it removes them.
5. You should be able to set deadlines on reading the papers and priorities (they would appear a different color).

This can be done manually, but I think it would be nice to have this feature automatically. Please let me know if you agree!
  • IamAlaminIslam
    I also vote for such a feature, because so much have to be read, sometimes it's hard to keep track of what I have read, what not. There is an extension which can do this, but having such core functionality built in would be great. As now Zotero is going through a major change, this is the time.
  • thalient
    edited July 9, 2024
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  • tim820
    I have collections at the top of my collections tree for multiple similar applications:
    __to be filed
    __to be read
    __to be OCRed
    __to be translated

    I usually select the '__to be filed' collection when saving new PDFs via the Web Connector. From there I read them and decide which collections they should be moved to ('__to be read' is more for PDFs that I decide later need to be (re)read).
  • pcinque
    Try this addin https://github.com/Dominic-DallOsto/zotero-reading-list
    You can add additional custom items to the list of predefined "tags".
  • yiannis.charalambous
    I'll check the add-ons suggested but I think it should be part of core now that we are getting an Android app because it would be nice to work seamlessly.
  • WalccMan
    for me it works fine to use a tag "read" for files I need to read, and assign it a color (plus hotkey) in the tag selection under the library. you just select the items, press "1" (or whatever number corresponds to your color), and the item is tagged and colored. selecting the tag in your library automatically shows you all items you need to read, and it only takes a single keypress to untag
  • yiannis.charalambous
    So I have news, I tried https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-actions-tags and couldn't get it to work, but https://github.com/Dominic-DallOsto/zotero-reading-list is exactly what I needed. I really hope this functionality could be built-in to Zotero at some point as I need to somehow track where I am with papers.
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