Upgrade StorageOSX Word Integration
Just finished a grant submission where I used zotero to manage 100 references.
In the process of merging content from other contributors I had to search/find their references and import into zotero using pubmed. Easy enough. The problem is Zotero allows you to import duplicate references. As part of the import process Zotero should warn you if the reference already exists in your library. Cleaning up duplications after they have already been inserted is a pain and not without potential to create more problems.
Using Nature formatting if you add a citation at the beginning of a large doc where numbers need to be redone can take forever and you get no prompt that it is complete. After doing an insert of a citation a popup message saying complete would help.
I switched to author-date formatting to avoid the problem of renumbering and all the fields ended up as superscript(small text above the word). This is a bug and makes it difficult to switch to anything else if you start out with nature style. You can go through and manually fix it but that should be done by software.
If you have track changes on and do an insert it is a mess in that every citation gets touched for font etc. Not sure if you can warn that track changes is on and can be disabled and then reenabled after the update.
Using the nature format the number in the paper doesn't link the bibliography. It would be nice to have that as an option for quick review of the reference and have that become part of a saved PDF.
It also appears that using the Word OSX options for inserting citations causes a memory leak. Loading the word doc of interest takes about 300MB of memory. After working on updating and inserting references I have seen it go to 1.5GB of memory and eventually crash. I got into the habit of saving before insert and checking memory before doing an insert. If free memory was getting low I would exit out of word and reload to free up memory.
I really like zotero and look forward to features that will leverage the knowledge.
I think I saw a feature request to integrate the number of citations a reference has!
It would also be very cool to see how many of the references have been co-cited in other papers. If five of my citations were cited in another paper and I don't have that paper in my library then I should probably read that paper. The same with authors on the paper that co-author a paper not in my library.
Keep up the great work and will plan on donating some money.
In the process of merging content from other contributors I had to search/find their references and import into zotero using pubmed. Easy enough. The problem is Zotero allows you to import duplicate references. As part of the import process Zotero should warn you if the reference already exists in your library. Cleaning up duplications after they have already been inserted is a pain and not without potential to create more problems.
Using Nature formatting if you add a citation at the beginning of a large doc where numbers need to be redone can take forever and you get no prompt that it is complete. After doing an insert of a citation a popup message saying complete would help.
I switched to author-date formatting to avoid the problem of renumbering and all the fields ended up as superscript(small text above the word). This is a bug and makes it difficult to switch to anything else if you start out with nature style. You can go through and manually fix it but that should be done by software.
If you have track changes on and do an insert it is a mess in that every citation gets touched for font etc. Not sure if you can warn that track changes is on and can be disabled and then reenabled after the update.
Using the nature format the number in the paper doesn't link the bibliography. It would be nice to have that as an option for quick review of the reference and have that become part of a saved PDF.
It also appears that using the Word OSX options for inserting citations causes a memory leak. Loading the word doc of interest takes about 300MB of memory. After working on updating and inserting references I have seen it go to 1.5GB of memory and eventually crash. I got into the habit of saving before insert and checking memory before doing an insert. If free memory was getting low I would exit out of word and reload to free up memory.
I really like zotero and look forward to features that will leverage the knowledge.
I think I saw a feature request to integrate the number of citations a reference has!
It would also be very cool to see how many of the references have been co-cited in other papers. If five of my citations were cited in another paper and I don't have that paper in my library then I should probably read that paper. The same with authors on the paper that co-author a paper not in my library.
Keep up the great work and will plan on donating some money.
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None of the bugs you report should happen - there have been recurring problems using the word plugin with track changes enabled and that's not advised, so that might have been part of this, but otherwise devs would need more precise error reports for those to be helpful:
http://www.zotero.org/support/reporting_bugs
with a separate thread for each reported bug.