Zotero-better-bibtex: Exporting Zotero collections to Qiqqa

If you enable jabref metadata, BBT will export the collections in jabref format. Maybe qiqqa understands that. You could add collections as tags with a postscript.

Thank you, retorquere. Unfortunately although Qiqqa can import jabref, it looks like that information about collections is not used by Qiqqa in any way from what I can tell. It does import tags, I've confirmed. So that postscript way might be worth a shot. I'm not exactly a programmer, but able and willing to learn. This is something I would put some time into myself if you could point me in the right direction on how one might start doing that.

I must admit, taking a step back, it may be quicker to manually apply each collection as a tag rather than learn programming and develop a script to do it. It's only a couple hundred collections, to be fair. I'm sure I could get it done in a few hours. HOWEVER I would absolutely love to learn how to do some scripting of this kind because it could come in handy in the future.

Don't worry about it. It's always OK to ask for a postscript. This facility is mainly an escape I grant myself so I don't have to change BBT for one-off requests.

const collections = item.collections.map(key => (Translator.collections[key] || {}).name).filter(coll => coll)
reference.add({ 
  name: 'keywords',
  value: item.tags.concat(collections),
  enc: 'tags',
})

That's really fantastic. I will give this a try. I saw that including jabref data turns off caching which says is a problem for auto-exporting. If I implemented this postscript instead of including the jabref data, will the script run on auto-export?

By the way, I have to say after digging around with Zotero plugins and seeing you on all these projects, I cannot thank you enough for everything you have created. You are an absolute gem to the community, and I don't think Zotero would be what it is without your contributions, so thank you.

Yep, postscripts run in auto-exports, and this particular postscript will not affect caching.

WRT the jabref data, auto exports will work fine, they'll just be a fair bit slower. Overall, zotero will actually be snappier though.

And you're very welcome.

This is very spectacular. I have just spent the better part of a week full time figuring out how to manage this library in a sensible way. You have made this infinitely easier. I have basically solved every problem I had now because of you. I am flat broke at the moment but when I do begin making an income again I will be sure to support your patreon. I really greatly appreciate your responsiveness. Outstanding.

Also, everything is working like a charm. A+++

Don't worry about support - I'm financially stable, I used the support that came in to get a very necessary laptop upgrade, but since then it's been fueling upgrades to my drumkit, and I'm saving up for a trip to visit a friend in the USA - given the state of the world, I still have lots of time to save up.

I'm happy I could help you.