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what's missing from your workflow? (plugin dev looking for ideas)

I build Zotero plugins and I'd rather work on something people actually need than guess. So, openly asking: what's the most annoying gap in your Zotero workflow right now?

A few prompts if it helps:

  • Something you do manually that should be automatic
  • A feature you assumed existed but doesn't
  • A workflow where you have to leave Zotero and wish you didn't
  • Anything around PDFs, notes, search, tagging, or syncing

Not pitching anything here — just trying to understand real pain points. Appreciate any war stories.

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u/reachtheworld360 — 14 days ago
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I built a Zotero 7 plugin for grounded Q&A over your PDFs — with clickable page citations

I made a plugin called Grounded Q&A that lets you ask questions about the papers in your Zotero library and get answers that link straight back to the exact page in the source PDF. Every claim is cited and clickable, so you can verify it instead of trusting a black-box summary.

It works on a single paper or across many at once, and it's bring-your-own-model — you can plug in Claude, GPT, Ollama (fully local), DeepSeek, or Grok, so you control cost and privacy.

It's free and open source. I'd really value feedback from people who live in Zotero daily — what breaks, what's missing, what would make it part of your workflow.

Repo: https://github.com/birugit/zotero-grounded-qa

u/reachtheworld360 — 14 days ago