Upgrade StorageSearch collection / favorite collection
Hi,
I would like to revive an old ask for a feature that seems quite basic to simple to me.
We still cannot search by collection name and or have favorite collections.
Am I the only one that would like to have those features?
Currently, the collection search option does not allow you to search. In practice, you have to scroll through a long list of collections, which is almost like finding the collections on the collections panel.
Let me know if you also thing that would be nice to have.
I would like to revive an old ask for a feature that seems quite basic to simple to me.
We still cannot search by collection name and or have favorite collections.
Am I the only one that would like to have those features?
Currently, the collection search option does not allow you to search. In practice, you have to scroll through a long list of collections, which is almost like finding the collections on the collections panel.
Let me know if you also thing that would be nice to have.
Hope you are well
Thanks Zotero developers for all your great efforts.
Related suggestions for improving handling of collections and items in large libraries:
1-Recent Collections icon: In the left pane in the main zotero window, is it possible to a create an icon beside the icons of "new collection" and "new library" to show "recent collections" similar to those appearing when using zotero connect in browsers to show the most recent collections.
2-Favorite collections: As mentioned above, another suggestion is adding the ability to pin some collections as favorite collections, and adding another icon for "favorite collections" or within the previous suggested icon "recent and favorite collections".
Another path would be adding the ability to add tags to collections themselves (as tagging folders) and being able to separate collections tags from items tags in the tags pane.
3-Recent opened files: Adding a list of recent opened files within zotero reader: Having an option/icon to quickly show recently "opened items", or open a history list or tab, or the ability to arrange items in the middle pane according to "date opened" can be helpful in many cases.
This last feature is, however, currently partially provided by some plugins as Chartero (it adds recent opened option to the file menu) and actions and tags plugin (can also save a list of opened tabs as a saved session). Another workaround would be creating a tag of recent opened or making minor modifications (as adding a comment of recently opened) in any opened file to affect the date modified field.
Sorry if any of these features already exists and thank you again for all your help and support
The new feature of collection search both in zotero and the web browser connector is great.
If it is possible to add a list of recent collections in the main zotero program similar to the browser connector this will be very helpful.
But as I mentioned before, I have found more workarounds using plugins:
The "Ethereal Style" plug-in provides the functionality of pinning favorite collections as well as saved searches above the main library. This is really great and very helpful function in handling complex structures of collections.
https://github.com/MuiseDestiny/zotero-style?tab=readme-ov-file
However, it might be useful to consider having these functionalities built-in in zotero itself with less consumption of resources (by adding an option for showing recent and favorite collections and saved searches, and recently opened files).
Sincerest thanks to the Zotero main program developers and all plug-in developers for their tremendous efforts.