Zotero collection plan: two assignments, six real source pages

This file accompanies moon-research-collection-plan.csv. It is a manual planning recipe, not a Zotero import file or a saved library.

Six source IDs, 13 placement rows. Repeated source IDs mean one existing library item placed in several collections. NASA owns the linked source pages; the collection choices and reader jobs are HowCurio's example. No NASA text or images are copied.

Collection tree
01 Moon research
  01 Orientation: moon (1)
  02 Comparison sources: moon, europa, enceladus, titan, io, ganymede (6)
  03 Essay shortlist: europa, enceladus, titan (3)
02 Class presentation: moon, europa, io (3)

Use
1. Open the CSV in a spreadsheet as UTF-8 comma-separated data.
2. Check whether each source URL is already in your Zotero library. Reuse existing records. If absent, save the source page once using Zotero Connector, then check its metadata.
3. Create the tree in the same Zotero library. Slash characters in the CSV separate parent and child names; they are not an instruction to type the entire path as one collection name.
4. Add the same existing item to each collection named in its CSV rows. Ordinary dragging adds another placement; Shift on Windows/Linux or Command on Mac changes dragging to a move.
5. Expected target sets, if you follow the recipe without extra references: Orientation 1; Comparison sources 6; Essay shortlist 3; Class presentation 3. The library gains six top-level reference records only if all six were initially absent and you save each once. Attachments/notes are excluded. These are planned checks, not observed Zotero results.
6. A parent collection does not show its children's items by default. In desktop Zotero, View > Show Items from Subcollections changes that display. It is not available in the online library.

Adaptation
Replace the source URLs and reader jobs with your assignment's material. Keep one row per source placement. Add a collection only when you need to open that set again. The shortlist is an editorial choice and carries no claim about habitability or scientific merit.

Scope
Official Zotero documentation checked October 7, 2026. This recipe was not run in a live Zotero profile. The CSV's rows, distinct IDs and per-collection counts were checked through a native CSV parser.