But I have found categories awkward and as I have thought about it more think that there is a really big problem with the way 'collections' are conceived in Zotero. I do really like the collections idea, it is great to have subsets of related references and as Carina points out references often fit in multiple categories. For these I really wish I could have a completely independent library where there is no possibility of me doing something stupid like I did today (see above) and having to spend ages reorganising the reference that I didn't want affected.
I have some quite discrete collections of reference material that I don't want to mix up - some are shared projects with others that include reference I don't think are particularly valuable. It would be better if a) all items that are solely in that collection are deleted as well (but others aren't) or b) a dialogue comes up and asks what the user would like.
I don't think that behaviour is very intuitive. I was then left with a situation that i couldn't delete the items easily without also deleting the scattering of other items that weren't in the collection (and which I wanted to keep). And would like to suggest that multiple libraries be made possible and/or some changes to the way collections work.Įg I just deleted 2 really large collection that I'd imported but didn't realise at the time that doing so wouldn't delete the items in doing so. I'm a fairly new user but I'm finding the relationship between collections and the library awkward.
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