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Zotero - Bugs, UI/UX Issues, Feature Requests
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Zotero - Bugs, UI/UX Issues, Feature Requests

Item Management

  • Delete key should delete, everywhere, these don't:
  • Items in Trash.
  • Item Attachments/Links within/from a Collection
  • Deleting the item works, sub items (links, attachments) do not
  • Shift-Delete should delete, bypassing Trash. If necessary, "Confirm" dialog with "dont ask me again" option
  • F2 keyboard shortcut and Right click -> Rename Parent Item to rename (title)
  • Use term "Delete" not "Move to Trash" (default can still move to trash, as per osx, windows behaviour)
  • When dragging, drop target (blue selection) is too small and hard/inconsistent to acquire.
  • There appears to be a gap between list item lines where a drop target is invalid
  • Might need a video recording to highlight if description is not obvious
  • Feature: Ability to "Compact Database" after importing/removing many items (Menu: File -> Compact)
  • Run SQLite VACUUM

Importing

  • Importing many links/attachments provides no progress bar
  • Appears to hang, main thread process could be blocking?
  • Option/Preference to automatically retrieve PDF metadata for each attachment/link. Opportunity for a nice import UI similar to Retrieve Metadata (for multiple files) UI.
  • Option/Preference to Link rather than Copy attachments by default
  • Also, ctrl-drag-drop to "attach as link"
  • Cannot Re-fetch PDF metadata once fetched.
  • Useful incase edit mistakes are made to Item properties and Undo doesnt work. Consider: To prompt user to overwrite existing item data or not. Potentially ask first time, with checkbox to 'Never ask me again'
  • PDF Metadata: Ability to Lookup metadata by DOI/other means if "PDF does not contain OCRed text."

User Interface

  • WYSIWYG: Add tooltips for editor buttons
  • WYSIWYG: Rename Format style to Default or None
  • Customisable toolbar items - add/remove/reorder
  • Rename Item Info tab to Properties. This is standard terminology
  • Unfiled items doesn't refresh (remove entry) after filing an item
  • Feature: Support F5 keys to refresh lists (eg: Unfiled items)
  • Undo/Redo doesn't function (functions unavailable)
  • Menu -> File and Menu -> Close appear to do the same thing.
  • Would make sense if multiple windows/profiles could be opened concurrently, but this doesn't appear to be the case
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