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Is there a way I could have multiple tabs or windows with the 'collections' view open at once?

I use collections extensively and it would be nice to be able to tab-switch between various views - especially I've also used the filter or advanced filter.

For example I might want to see "Already Read > Resilience" along with "To Read > Industry > Scuba" and "To Read > Industry > Aviation" and get a sense of the various papers in each collection.


Alternately,

is there something like macOS 'Smart Folder' which lets you save a search and view it like a directory?

(ideally both, but either might work for me for now)
  • AbeJellinek Zotero Team
    Is there a way I could have multiple tabs or windows with the 'collections' view open at once?
    This isn't currently possible, but likely in a future version.
    is there something like macOS 'Smart Folder' which lets you save a search and view it like a directory?
    Click Save Search in the Advanced Search window, or right-click the library -> New Saved Search...
  • isabelleheadrick
    I want to second (or third) the request to have multiple tabs open with different collections.
    There is a way to have different windows open, at least in Mac. Hide the current window (click on yellow circle upper-left hand corner). Then click command-0 (zero). This will open up a second window.
    This is useful, but having tabs would be much better.
  • iansethmcphail
    @isabelleheadrick - thank you so much for the tip to use command-0 to open multiple windows, absolute lifesaver for me who needs to continuously compare the structure of different collections!
  • isabelleheadrick
    Bumping this topic, since the option of viewing in multiple windows with the cmd-0 trick seems to have gone away...
  • fschuman
    Bumping this topic as well.

    As a tiny workaround, one can open Zotero both in the browser and as the desktop app.
  • iagogv
    +1

    (and in the browser one can use the corresponding split view option for the tabs; at least on Vivaldi, Brave, and I believe as a experimental feature of most recent Firefox).

  • isabelleheadrick
    Since there is yet another new version, I want to once more bump the issue of having multiple library/collections tabs open at one time. This would be SUPER-USEFUL. Please add this in to future versions!

    (While you're at it, I know this sounds superficial, but I am really missing the old icons for items types/libraries from pre-version 8. The new ones look so two-dimensional, like they were drawn by a child, and are harder to tell one from the other. I appreciate that you guys are developing new features, but the older visuals were just so much more appealing and easier to distinguish from one another.)
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