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Suggestion by @kokhaur: Provide a warning when unable to parse required fields, eg when the user opens the file with the wrong file source set.

Suggestion by @kokhaur: The find overlaps function may take a few seconds to complete, during which time the GUI will be frozen. Provide a progress indictor to avoid this perception of a hang.

Suggestion by @kokhaur: increase the margins around the sidebar since the controls are right up against the margins.

Suggestion by @kokhaur: Consider adding an instruction manual or video tutorials to the website.

The web app could not complete the overlap detection step after a file import error (see #6). Refreshing the web app and running overlap detection without any further file imports completed the task successfully, indicating that a stale state after the failed import likely preventing the first overlaps run from completing.

The desktop app supports selecting a folder to import all of its contents. This function allows importing lists from databases that require downloading search results in separate batches, without requiring these files to be stitched together beforehand. The web app currently only imports one file at a time, and sheet file names will conflict with the first imported file for the given database source.

Workarounds in the meantime:

1. After importing the first file, rename the sheet, eg from "WebOfScience" to "WebOfScience1"; repeat for all files, followed by copying and pasting all the imported data into one "WebOfScience" sheet
2. Stitch together files beforehand in a text editor

Citation list import currently expects files with .csv or .tsv extensions to determine the delimiter. Some databases export files with .txt extensions that are in either CSV or TSV format. It would be nice to support these files, perhaps through a fallback to auto-delimiter detection or trying either delimiter.

Tab names do not update when a database source is selected from a dropdown that is the same as the database chosen from the last changed dropdown box.

The web app gives a parse error for Web of Science files.

Suggestion by @kokhaur: The export tables function exports several files rather than a single file. Several of these files have the same name as existing files (adding _clean to the citation list filenames), which could potentially cause confusion when reimporting the original citation lists. Exporting to a new folder at the user-specified location would collect all this output together.

Suggestion by @kokhaur: Add a menu bar with help information, or a button to have some way to direct to the website.

Suggestion by @kokhaur: Provide way to resume a prior session rather than having to reopen all the files.