![]() ![]() Zotfile allows selection of (one or multiple) top-level Zotero items (e.g. So meanwhile perhaps I should just use a single naming convention for all file types, which would allow me to use Zotero's renaming.Īlso, a feature request for the batch re-naming functionality: Or I might give up on that differentiation, as it would still require manual re-naming.at least until Zotero might allow differing attachment naming string formats per item type. putting quotes around article titles in file names, but not around book titles). So maybe single-quote marks would be a good way I can still differentiate articles from books (i.e. Interestingly, both did allow single-quote marks. Indeed, both stripped out semi-colons and could not handle double-quote marks. Good to know! I just did some tests with both Zotfile and Zotero's respective renaming commands. So for example an article on Skepticism would be filed in Philosophy:Skepticism with an alias in Philosophy:Epistemology if the author has a folder of his/her own, then either the alias or original would also go in that folder and so on.) ![]() I use aliases if a given article falls under multiple topics and themes. I organize the files topically and thematically on the computer thus I use Mac's Finder and folder hierarchy to organize these files. ![]() (Note that I use my own file organization system, not Zotero's built-in database. Zotfile also still seems to default to moving the files into the Zotero database when re-naming, rather than just re-naming linked files and leaving them in their place. Presumably such is impossible with Zotero or any add-ons? I've been experimenting with Zotfile as well, but it only seems to allow a single naming convention for all of the above categories of media. Leaving off the authors for certain types of works (reference works, anthologies, encyclopedias) also makes those easy to identify at a glance. That standard is derived from the use of quotation marks for article titles within citations in Chicago style. The quotation marks, for example, are used only for articles, so this makes easy quick differentiation of articles from books. pdfĪnthology, Encyclopedia, Reference Work: (omits author(s) and editor(s)): My usual manual file-naming protocol, which I've used for years:Īuthor(s) - Title. Is there any way to set up different automatic attachment file-naming conventions for different types of media? ![]()
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