Thanks Jason, I appreciate your recommendation! I'll give it a try before I request a feature. Perhaps I have just been too pig-headed about Zotero to appreciate the attractions of the workflow you describe.
First, I just want to say that Hypernomicon is really a wonderful project. It's at the heart of my workflow as a philosopher, and I recommend it to everyone who is looking for database software. My one question/suggestion: I have never really liked any of the citation managers, and I use LaTeX, so I mostly handle citations by accumulating BibTex data outside of Hypernomicon. But it occurred to me that if Hypernomicon just had a button that I could click that would take the info I'd put into the database...