Just a small note, this time, on customizing Zotero’s Word plugin: I have wanted keyboard shortcuts to Zotero, for example for insert note, instead of clicking on a button. Found this on the Zotero forum:
# 1 is indeed a word processor issue. In Word, choose Tools –> Customize –> Keyboard, pick “Macros” from the Categories list, pick (e.g.) “ZoteroInsertCitation” from the Macros list. Write your shortcut key sequence of choice (e.g. F4) where it says “Press new shortcut key”, –> Assign –> Close.
Works like a charm. (I’m on Word 2004, Mac OS X 10.5.4.)
Also, these last days I’ve been working on one of my papers; it’s still early in the process, so lots of pdf’s are downloaded and references collected, and Zotero’s automatic way of getting reference data from, for example, ADS, which I’ve been using a lot, is really a boon. Much more handy than having Endnote to connect to some other database than ADS just to get this stuff. It’s becoming second nature, now, after a while; whenever I see some paper that is interesting, I look for the symbol in the address field in Firefox and just click. Really handy.
