Library Management

Beaver can help you browse, search, and organize your Zotero library. It can find items by specific field conditions, explore collections and tags, and organizing items in bulk.

Organizing New Additions

As your library grows, it's easy for new papers to pile up without proper organization. Beaver can help you stay on top of recent additions:

Project-Based Organization

When starting a new project or paper, Beaver can help you gather and organize relevant references:

Automating Common Tasks

If you frequently perform the same organization tasks, you can save time by creating actions. Actions are reusable prompts you define once and trigger anytime with a keyboard shortcut or the slash menu.

For example, you might create actions for:

• "Organize all unfiled items from the last week into appropriate collections"
• "Review item metadata for all items added this week"
• "Add the citation count to the extra field for all items that don't have it"

See the Actions documentation for setup instructions and more examples.

You Stay in Control

When Beaver modifies your library (adding tags, creating collections, moving items), all changes require your approval by default. Beaver will show you exactly what it plans to do, and nothing happens until you confirm. This ensures you always have the final say over your library organization.

You can configure this behavior in Beaver settings:

• Always ask (default): Review every proposed change before it's applied
• Auto-apply: Trust Beaver to make changes automatically
• Continue without applying: Let Beaver propose changes that you can review and apply later