"Checking Off" Items in a Collection

johnmims · April 5, 2022

New zotero user. Perhaps I'm just missing it, but is there a way to "check off" items in my collection? As I work on research, I'll find a collection of articles, and as I use them in my lit review, I want to annotate that I've included the item in my paper. Is there a way to highlight, check off, or otherwise note used items? The only thing I've found that might work is tags. Has anyone come up with a good system?

bwiernik · April 6, 2022

Make a tag with the ✔️ Emoji as the tag text, then make that a colored tag (right click and choose Assign color)

DWL-SDCA · April 6, 2022

I have used tags with colors "!2R" (to read) and "Read".

johnmims · April 6, 2022

That is perfect! Thank you!

molinaroliw · 2024-12-04T01:01:14+00:00

Is there a way to do this in "My Library" where I can have a column and quickly see it?

adamsmith · 2024-12-04T01:31:07+00:00

bwiernik's advice applies and emoji tags are visible in the center oanel

molinaroliw · 2024-12-04T01:49:18+00:00

Okay, I cannot get it to work. I have tried an emoji checkmark, the word, "read," and I do not see a column with either. I tried to add a column called "Extra" and could not maipulate it. What am I doing wrong?

poettli · 2024-12-04T02:04:56+00:00

Select any item
Add ✔️ as a tag to the item (right panel)
✔️ will be visible to the left of the title, in the central panel
Edit: Great resource shared by adamsmith below

adamsmith · 2024-12-04T02:08:04+00:00

Scroll down (or search for emoji) on this page for details https://guides.library.unlv.edu/CitationManagerShowdown/zotero

Calorion · 2024-12-22T21:11:56+00:00

Argh, but then how do you add the tag? I can name a tag "✔️Read,” and the “✔️” shows up nicely, but then when I add a tag and type “read,” it doesn’t come up as a suggestion!

Calorion · 2024-12-22T22:50:34+00:00

Aha! The fix is easy: Add the emoji to the *end* of the tag, not the beginning. Search then works just fine, and so does the emoji-detection

tim820 · 2024-12-23T00:29:00+00:00

When the emoji is at the start of the tag, the only real way to add the tag to an item is to drag the item onto the tag at the top of the left tag pane. Or the number-key keyboard shortcut.
https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#colored_tags