Sunday, May 23, 2010

A Zotero Wishlist (or things EndNote does that Zotero doesn't do...yet)

I wish Zotero...
  • listed the total number of records.
  • (Type ctrl-a, and the total number will appear in the right column.)
  • allowed you to search in a highlighted column by typing.
  • allowed you to open more than one database at the same time (see this thread: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2266/).
  • allowed you to search and replace data (see EndNote's powerful "change and move fields" command).
  • displayed tags on the same page as basic record information.
  • sorted by complete author instead of by last name.
  • allowed you to add formatting to titles (I understand this will be implemented soon).
  • imported multiple PDF's (EndNote doesn't do this either).
  • did not take so long to load large databases.
Hopefully, many of these will be implemented soon.


For the record, I still prefer Zotero to EndNote.

2 comments:

Latinamericanist said...

just came across this:

listed the total number of records.
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/8644/feature-request-library-statistics/#Item_2

allowed you to search in a highlighted column by typing.
it does (or at least should) in the column you're sorting by in the middle panel.

imported multiple PDF's (EndNote doesn't do this either).
that inability refers only to the (rather clumsy) RIS. Using RDF, Zotero will import multiple pdfs. I realize that's not going to help people with multiple attachments in their endnote library, but this is at least as much Endnotes unwillingness to export into an open and increasingly used format as Zotero's inability to import.

d. miller said...

Thanks!