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I assume that it is possible to set up two zotero installations to use the same zotero directory, but it won't be that way by default. By default you will have two separate zotero databases, and the MS Word plugin will either be communicating with …
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@tadoslav If you are able. It would be helpful to have a list of differences between SBL and the Chicago Manual of Style
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Wow, that's excellent.
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I have always assumed that 'thesis' is the general category to which all graduate level unpublished research. I mark them as thesis with a type of 'PhD' (or DD, DMin, whatever). One of the characteristics of the citation language which Zotero use…
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@tadoslav (from the "requests for existing features" dept. :-) LOC subjects are impored as "automatic" tags in Zotero, unless you uncheck the preference for them in the Prefs dialog. This is to distinguish them (if you want) from the non-automati…
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Of course ".dost war peace" should hopefully come up empty. ".tolst war peace" might have a better chance.
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@ Matthias: I like the idea of adding CQL to zotero's command/search line. But a "pure" CQL implementation would still lack what I most want: ultra-easy search entry for the kinds of search I do most. When reading or searching online databases, I …
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Ah, must have been the "Create Zotero Item and note from selection" line that I was thinking of, which only shows up when I ... make a selection. No help to you though.
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Funny. I thought that Zotero once had a "Save snapshot of current page" in the context menu, but I can't find it now.
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You can sync your zotero data directory, but at the moment, only if 'sync' means clobbering one data directory by another. I sync my zotero databases between a few computers and a portable firefox directory on a USB, but that never means I can merg…
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@nok32 At the moment there is no way to auto-rename already downloaded PDFs. You can rename them manually within Zotero by clicking on the attachment name (e.g. JSTOR Full Text PDF) on the top right of the right hand pane after selecting the PDF at…
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Glad you have something that works for you. Thanks for coming by. I have reasonably good sized personal research collection (1500 biblio items, 2000 items total, 300 PDFs) and I don't' notice any Firefox startup time issues, even on lower spec com…
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On windows, just drag the zip file into the open word processor document. I had no idea it was possible either until I tried it. It seems that the (Word) document holds the zip file like a container (at any rate the document's file size expands by…
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20. Send the final document to a different computer. Harvest the citations from the document into your citation tool. And what if that final document contained a second bibliography that you had dragged from Zotero (all 19 items) with the Copy as H…
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You won't be able to sync Zotero databases with Groove, since the records are stored in a database file which Groove has no way of combining. If Groove has the ability to sync files, you might be able to get it to regularly replace one zotero direc…
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I know nothing about Groove, but I can say a little about Zotero's data directory in your firefox profile. You won't have any luck merging the two (desktop and laptop) directories. You have to replace one by the other. And if you want them to mat…
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There is no preference within Zotero (or AFAIK the Word plugin) to make that happen. I suspect it's a matter of the bibliographic style you are using. I haven't tried them all, but if you don't get a definitive answer from this forum, you might ex…
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I like the delete-not-remove idea. When I forget what context I'm in and notice a duplicate, and then accidentally remove the item instead of deleting it, it can take a lot of steps to correct the mistake (switch to Main Library, search for item, m…
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The reason I like the idea of multiple libraries is to have somewhere to offload some collected content that I want to keep, but don't want cluttering up my main library (mainly to keep search/sort/tagging/collection-changing from slowing down). Fr…
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When you say 'pages' do you mean Zotero's 'items'? I'll assume so. Do clarify if I haven't understood the question, but drag and drop (exactly as you described) does work. Click any collection. Select items to move. Drag to next collection. No…
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I also wonder if there might be an easy way to just 'get the goods' from the web pages I want. I'm currently syncing my zotero directory via USB. I have a large-ish database, and I really notice the file *count* add up. I have gone to using scrap…
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Bruce's comment at the end of this thread notwithstanding, I like the idea of connecting outlining (or better: dialogue mapping) with Zotero. I would be glad if, once I had my notes (or excerpts) into zotero I could *do something* with them in ways…
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@antingxu: It seems that capturing *everything,* if you could do it, would be pretty resource intensive (CPU for sure, perhaps also bandwidth). Depending on what you are browsing, Zotoero can recognize a lot, especially if you factor in the lists/f…
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@erazlogo: any idea whether the no-children-without-parents limit is written pretty deeply in to Z? (Could it conceivably be re-done?) I can think of situations where the flexibility to have lone children (or at least children with the parent, but …
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it will also convert your footnotes (the normal ones, i.e.without zotero information) into plain text, that is a normal number. The footnote itself, the text, gets lost. That is no good. Hmm. And no way to flatten fields without cutting and pastin…
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I think what you want to do is to flatten the fields. I don't have a copy of OOo to hand, and I can't seem to find how to do it online just now, so you'll have to look yourself (and it may not be called "flattening fields" exactly). In Word you ac…
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Note that if you plan to make use of your notes in MS Word or OpenOffice, you can use the following conventions in your plaintext notes, and use your word processor's 'Auto Format' feature to convert them to WYSIWIG formatting: Word will Auto forma…
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I use numbers to order my collections: 01_Get Now 02_Get Later 03_Never Get And it works pretty well.
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I second this, both the request for list-management of abbreviated journal titles, and the addition of an 'Abbreviated Series Title' field (with list-management there too). About every other scholarly book published in Biblical Studies and Ancient N…
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Tim: very nice. I was hoping someone would introduce the Biblical Studies blog-reading community to Zotero at some point, and to do it less verbosely and with better formatting than I did above. I especially like the screencast.