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StevenGLee / zotero-author-browser

This Zotero addon provides statics of authors and simplifies viewing items of designated author in a Zotero library.
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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[Feature suggestion] Author filter #38

Open vaagee opened 2 days ago

vaagee commented 2 days ago

I love the idea of Author Browser!

As far as I understand, it is currently achieved by saving an advanced search based on the selected creator. This is nice, but not the optimal way in my view - one has to do multi-step operations before getting the results. And the saved search will squeeze the room of the libraries.

I suggest an author filter instead (in the current Tag filter area). Similar to the current tag filter function, when one selects an author name all his/her papers show up. A similar feature exists in Mendeley and I like it very much.

I'm not familiar with zotero coding therefore unsure about how challenging the programming can be. But I'd like to contribute if it is needed!

vaagee commented 2 days ago

By the way, similar discussions have appeared multiple times on the Zotero forum, though the official developers seem not interested in implementing it. From one of the discussions (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/86874/feature-request-author-view-list), tim820 proposed an interesting way to create an author list using Java code. I hope this can be helpful, for instance saving these code snippets as buttons in the plugin.