New column: collection/subcollection

Hi,

Thank you for the great app. However, I find that a column showing the collection or subcollection to which a file belongs to would be very relevant. When using a collection with subcollections, it is not easy to see which documents are included in which subcollections or none. A simple column allowing multiple attributes per item would help.

  • https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/collections_containing_an_item

    An item can be in any number of collections, so a column doesn't make sense.
  • edited 21 days ago
    It would still be faster to check than manually clicking on each reference in a collection to either look up its metadata or highlight folders with CTRL.

    An alphabetical list of collections into which the item is found, as a column, would allow sorting by 1st collection, highlight items with 0 collections, allow users to put items only in 1 collection each if they want to maximize the use of this column.
    Secondly, it would allow to get a visual overview of the multiple collections to which an item belongs more quickly than with 1 CTRL+click / item.

    It doesn't seem technically costly or complicated to implement to me (but I might be wrong?), with numerous benefits depending on user preferences.

  • I totally agree. A subcolumn collection would also allow deleting redundant or misplaced files
    Best
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