Suggestion: remove icon from Supporting/Disputing/Mentioning column entries
JessRiedel opened this issue · 8 comments
I have a lot of columns visible in my Library view. I think it's unnecessary for the Supporting/Disputing/Mentioning entries to have an icon (green check, blue question mark, gray slash) in each and every entry (right?) since it doesn't provide new information.
I presume the idea here is to make it visually easier to interpret the numbers, but if so can I suggest adding the icon to the column header rather than each entry? This would actually be great, because then if I reside the columns to be as narrow the data typically is (1-4 digit number) it will still be easy to understand the header even though it won't be wide enough to fit "Supporting", "Disputing", or "Mentioning".
@JessRiedel Great -- if you upgrade the plugin (or re-install via https://github.com/scitedotai/scite-zotero-plugin/releases/tag/v1.11.6) it should work. Let me know if it plays nice with your Zotero & any other plugins you have installed and if so, I'll close out the issue :).
@JessRiedel Sweet. We were actually discussing whether "Total smart citations" is worth keeping -- do you find it useful? I was concerned it might be confusing to have that and "Total citing publications" (1 publication can have more than 1 smart citation, so those counts will vary, but the labels do look similar, and the total smart citations is just a sum of the other individual ones - supporting, mentioning, contrasting). I think it's hidden by default, but if it's something you find yourself checking, I'll try and find a good icon for it.
Oh and the fix on the justification issue described in #44 also looks great.
We were actually discussing whether "Total smart citations" is worth keeping -- do you find it useful?
I only recently installed the add-on, so I can't say for sure whether I'll find it useful, but my inclination is that I won't. In principle the info will be accessible even if you remove that column, since it's just the sum of supporting, contrasting, and mentioning (right?), and I can't actually think of many practical cases where I would want to know how many smart citations there are. (I guess higher smart citation numbers could indicate more substantive discussion about a paper, rather than just an appearance of a single perfunctory cite in the introduction of the papers citing it? Hard to say.)