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dsifford
Improve UX for inserting a single reference from the reference list
Related: https://github.com/dsifford/academic-bloggers-toolkit/issues/413#issuecomment-357780221
It is difficult to find the reference for insertion when the uncited items are not in alphabetical order and there are many of them. Could we have a simple function that either sorts the unciteds alphabetically or brings refs to top of list by typing in a few letters?
+1. This is a great capability, thank you for creating and sharing it. I would also like to see a sorting and autocomplete capability as I find it difficult to find references when I have a decent number of them (currently working on one site that has 89 references). For the sorting, I would agree that alphabetically would be useful (by first author last name or by title of the reference) and also by year of publication.
Duly noted. Thanks for the feedback.
I work on this project exclusively in my free time since I don't make money for the effort, and unfortunately (at least til the end of this year), my free time has been close to non-existent.
Primary objective when I get free time again is to update for gutenberg. Then I'll look back into this. So, in short, this won't happen until at least next year sometime at the very earliest.
The gutenberg update certainly makes sense as the top priority.
While we're talking, how are the Uncited Items currently sorted anyways? I import mine from a Mendeley-generated *.ris file. I originally thought that they were sorted by the order of the entries in the *.ris file, but that does not seems to be the case. I'm wondering if there might be some interim way for me to control the sorting of items in my ris file and have them sort that way in the your plugin?
Thanks again for your help with this, it really is a great capability.
I couldn't remember from the top of my head, but looking quickly it appears to be unsorted, which probably results in the items being "sorted" by default using the object IDs (which is a unique string that varies depending on where it came from... DOI, PMID, etc).
https://github.com/dsifford/academic-bloggers-toolkit/blob/2435a76acc96c3e3ddc27971d3139d92f7c9755e/src/js/stores/data/citation-store.ts#L15-L31
Uncited items are going to be sortable by a few different fields in the next update. Hopefully that makes things a tad easier.
appreciate your efforts on this amazing plugin. strongly recommend commercializing it so u can get some benefit for the efforts u put in. As of now, you're the only developer who has such a solution and i'm sure thousands of your users won't mind paying for a better experience.
