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  • I would like to give a short example on what sorting of single child notes into collections could be used for. One powerful application would be the outlinig of academic articles and books: Example: You have lots publications in the zotero library …
    in Petition: higher priority for ticket #672 on sortable child notes Comment by zmg October 10, 2008
  • @bdarcus: You're right on that Endnote doesn't have an excerpt management feature. That' s a point where zotero could score easily - both against BibDesk and Endnote, which are both widely spread inspite of their outdated design concepts (they are r…
    in Thinking about switching from Endnotes to Zotero... Your experiences! Comment by zmg October 9, 2008
  • Me too ... and it would be so great if zotero would support child notes, that could be sorted into collections on their own. I desperately wish for that to create outlines. Using tags is just not the same as dropping bits of thought (notes) into fol…
    in Zotero for Biblical Studies Comment by zmg October 8, 2008
  • Problem is with zotero, that it is very unhandy if you have a huge base of sources and respective child excerpts and want to group them into outlines for chapters, articles, etc. That's almost impossible to do, because you can't manipulate child not…
    in Thinking about switching from Endnotes to Zotero... Your experiences! Comment by zmg October 8, 2008
  • hallo noksagt: Thank you for your answers! Hm ... Do you know if the developers are working on that kind feature? I could really use it ... I found a lot of postings requesting a similar thing. I tested zotero1.5 but it's not in there right now.
    in working with notes Comment by zmg October 8, 2008
  • I can only support hmarcuse: I love zotero, but to become it a true research tool for humanities, zotero absolutely needs: a) The possibility to arrange single child-notes of several books/articles/etc. independently in collection-folders …
    in Notetaking capabilities and request for recommendations Comment by zmg October 8, 2008
  • No, I thought about this, but tags won't do it. One advantage of collections is, that they are hierachical. Also this dragging and dropping is much more intuitive: For example I could have a bunch of collections on some topics. Then while planing th…
    in working with notes Comment by zmg October 7, 2008
  • In support of hmarcuse, roelder and others: I am writing on my thesis. I found zotero and I love it. But I desperately could need something very simple: a) The possibility to arrange single child-notes of several books/articles/etc. in collecti…
    in working with notes Comment by zmg October 7, 2008