Mendeley on UserVoice

Linking related papers/references [updated]

2012-05-15T16:17:36-04:00

Link related papers e.g. response to a paper, or a comment on an important trial can be linked to the main paper. It would be useful to have this information analyzed by the Mendeley servers, if enough users link related papers, and then other uses may be prompted that a certain paper is related to another one(s).

Sune Woeller said:

Linking book sections (chapters) to books would also be a nice benifit. (An edited book, with chapters by different authors.)

making it possible to highlight text with different colors (not only yellow) [updated]

2012-05-15T14:24:33-04:00

Anonymous said:

It is very important!
And should not be THAT complicated.
I am really waiting for this feature!
Thank you very much for the subfolders!

Rewrite Mendeley Desktop for Mac with a native UI (Carbon) instead of the current Qt UI [updated]

2012-05-15T11:53:17-04:00

While the Mendeley team has done a fairly good job making Mendeley Desktop for Mac *look* like a native Mac application, the current Qt implementation leaves a bit to be desired. On the surface, performance is sluggish compared to a native Carbon application. This is apparent not only in interacting with the application (scrolling, resizing window frames, etc.), but even in doing things as simple as moving the Mendeley Desktop window. A true Carbon UI would alleviate these issues. A native UI would also solve other nagging issues such as the window not respecting the menu bar and dock location ( http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/201132-stop-letting-window-slide-under-menu-bar-in-mac-os?ref=title ). I'm almost certain that multitouch support would come at almost no cost (code-wise) in a Carbon UI (as requested here: http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/677561-add-support-for-multitouch-gestures-to-the-mac-ver?ref=title ).

maximilian.held83 said:

Agreed.
Not sure whether this is a framework/UI issue, but I just find the performance of Mendeley Desktop for Mac pretty lacking. It's just not very responsive, both in search and scrolling PDFs. Preview is MUCH faster and slicker, so it's gotta be possible.
Maybe a more native application would do the trick?
Anyway, this is a big deal; usability and responsiveness needs to be perfect for an app that users will use so intensively (for hours on end).

See highlight text quickly, like the notes on the side bar. The amazon kindle has it ! [updated]

2012-05-15T11:49:28-04:00

Have the highlight text in a side bar with the notes, for easy scanning of the highlights. May include some of the text before and after the highlight, similar to what the kindle reader has.

maximilian.held83 said:

yes, absolutely! This is a must.
Kindle sets the benchmark for UI design in this department.
They even sync back and forth. Mendeley should be able to do the same.
Just copy/paste the highlighted text or snippet it into the side bar and let me comment right there, so that I can have a conversation view.
Again, checkout Kindle, they've got the UI right.

Mendeley eReader [updated]

2012-05-15T10:06:44-04:00

Create a special eReader designed for Mendeley (in cooperation with Amazon or whoever) and maybe sell it to universities who would be happy to save paper and become 'greener'.

3nrique said:

reading papers on the readers is a little hard since papers are PDF format. It could be nice to have papers on ereader native format

MS Word's field code (e.g. caption and cross-referencing) updating doesn't work because of Mendeley [updated]

2012-05-15T09:54:33-04:00

Mendeley's Citations in the document disables updating field code (captions, cross-referencing, etc) as long as one of citations is in the selected part. One of the features which have made MS word useful is the captions and cross-referencing. Adding the required citations, in the middle of document, by selecting the whole text and pressing F9 or update, the numbering automatically gets in order according to their appearance in the document. Since Mendeley Citations and references are in updatable field code format, if one of them appears in the selected part of the document, the update function gets inactivate, since it can’t recognize Mendeley citations.

Jeppe Lyngsø said:

I also struggled with this problem working with a recent paper for publishing. The solution I came across which seems to work very well is the following:

Go to: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm and follow the guide to setting up macroes in your normal.dotm or whatever template you're using. Use the suggested UpdateAll macro and save it in the open template. Now for convenience make a shortcut button to the new macro in the ribbon somewhere meaningful (placed mine at the end of the references tab). Now when you want to update the field codes in the entire document (with Mendeley citations inserted) press the UpdateAll macro button and voila! Every field should now be up to date with proper numbering etc. Hope this helps. :)

many papers from one author the same year [updated]

2012-05-15T07:05:53-04:00

Here's the problem i'm facing. One author wrote many paper the same year. if i want to cite them all, it's impossible to kow which one i cited. ex.: YAIR (2000, 2000) should be YAIR (2000a, 2000b)!

Athena said:

Hi, see my post just below yours. You need to choose "Harvard - Staffordshire University". It was the only one that took care of that problem for me.

many papers from one author the same year [updated]

2012-05-15T05:17:34-04:00

Here's the problem i'm facing. One author wrote many paper the same year. if i want to cite them all, it's impossible to kow which one i cited. ex.: YAIR (2000, 2000) should be YAIR (2000a, 2000b)!

Anonymous said:

I am using Mendeley 1.5.1 with Harvard Style 1 and I am having the same problem.

In fact now don't know which is paper a, b, c etc from the authors with multiple papers in the same year, as it has deleted the indicator in the database.

My thesis is due in 2 weeks and I have a big problem, please help me find a fix.

android [updated]

2012-05-15T04:57:43-04:00

An android app to access Mendely from android phones would be welcome (when all bugs in the desktop app are fixed ;-) Best Claude

tommy said:

As I read more and more articles on Android tablet, I find it increasingly difficult to use Mendeley to organize pdf files. It simply is not a part of the work flow any more. I liked what Mendeley have done on PC, but sooner or later it will be uninstalled or forgotten considering the lack of support on mobile devices. Sad, but I can not do much. Hope someone makes a Mendeley alternative soon.

Built-in RSS feed for journals [updated]

2012-05-15T03:54:05-04:00

I keep track of new research via RSS feeds from all the relevant journals in my field. I currently use Feed Demon, I go daily through the new papers in the feed-inbox, delete the uninteresting ones, and check out what is interesting using the provided links. If I like a paper, I add it from the journal webpage to Mendeley. I think it would make sense to "cut out the middle man" and have an RSS feed reader built into Mendeley for this purpose.

Anne-Sylvie said:

I completely agree.

to add a formating menu to the paper title.

2012-05-15T03:06:43-04:00

Alex suggested:
Now the Latex commands are imported and saved, but this brings problems with Word and Co. Better would be to convert the PDF title with upper and lower-case and indices to a universal format within Mendeley (maybe MathML). Then given a certain export mode (e.g.Bibtex), the title would be correctly converted to the export mode ones. Example: DOI 10.1149/1.3322517 and all stuff with chemical sum formulas or greek letters (IEEE papers)

Please have multiple desktops for multiple reading sessions. That and side-by-side view to view two pages of a document at once.

2012-05-15T00:53:26-04:00

Plugin for Libre Office [updated]

2012-05-14T23:27:00-04:00

Create a plugin for the new Libre Office of the Document Foundation.

Anonymous said:

It worked! Go to opt/mendeleydesktop/share/mendeleydesktop/openOfficePlugin/x.x.x.oxt and extract it. Then you go to LibreOffice (3.5.2.2 for me) Tools menu, Extension Manager and install .oxt file. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and Mendeley 1.5.1. Thanks everybody!

Sort according to the date of publication in search window (Search Results in desktop version) [updated]

2012-05-14T22:57:45-04:00

psnew said:

had the same thought

Organize papers from reading mode

2012-05-14T17:19:07-04:00

Davíð Rúrik Martinsson suggested:
It would be helpful to add an article to a spesific folder in my library when reading it instead of having to go back to library and find it there. I often have several articles open at the same time and it can take time to decide to which folder it belongs. This would save the effort of having to search for it again to organize it.

make naming conventions more flexible & less forced

2012-05-14T16:18:43-04:00

sean mcclellan suggested:
sometimes authors do not have a first name & last name. i.e., government websites. CMS should not be "Services, Centers for Medicare & .".

Import annotations from PDF [updated]

2012-05-14T14:43:16-04:00

SInce Mendeley stores in tis database the annotations, it would be nice to import annotations from pdfs already annotated

Anonymous said:

I, too, would love to see this feature. I've been annotating PDFs on my tablet for a year now, and I just started using Mendeley, and it's really frustrating that the notes from my PDFs aren't in Mendeley (not to mention that Mendeley doesn't recognize the PDFs as the same ones others are reading).

PMID lookup fails

2012-05-14T13:32:09-04:00

Daniel suggested:
For about a week now, PMID database lookups have returned the error "Lookup Failed". Running Mendeley 1.5.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.8.

Support for systems with multiple OS - "sharing the same watch and dump folders scross different installations" [updated]

2012-05-14T10:08:15-04:00

I have 2 OS on same machine: A & B. Have installed the corresponding versions of Mendeley. Both watch the same folder and dump to the same folder. there should be a way for different installations to share a common config files, so that there aren't duplicates stored in the same dump folder.

robert.knight said:

To clarify - you can install Mendeley on each different OS on a system, but it should be treated the same as if you were installing Mendeley on two different computers synced via the internet.

Support for systems with multiple OS - "sharing the same watch and dump folders scross different installations" [updated]

2012-05-14T10:07:33-04:00

robert.knight said:

Hello - We have no plans to do this at the moment. I'm not convinced we could test it adequately to call it a supported feature.

Please bring NeoOffice support back [updated]

2012-05-14T10:06:27-04:00

I was upset to discover that version 1.5 dropped support for NeoOffice on Macs. To continue working, I downgraded back to 1.3. However, to the best of my knowledge, NeoOffice has a wide reception in the Mac world, and this changed little since OpenOffice official support for macs and since the introduction of LibreOffice. Will your decision affect your success on Macs?

robert.knight said:

Hello,

We are not planning to continue development for NeoOffice ourselves. We have made the code available at https://github.com/Mendeley/openoffice-plugin in case a third-party wishes to get involved and help out. You may also be able to install LibreOffice alongside NeoOffice and use that with the same documents.

In future we may look at providing a Word-processor agnostic plugin with can be used with Word processors that we haven't specifically developed support for.

Document the Mendeley Desktop dependencies [updated]

2012-05-14T09:59:19-04:00

Currently there seems to be no way to discover the list of Mendeley Desktop runtime dependencies and their versions except by trying to run it and decipher the error messages. The (probably incomplete) list of dependencies I've discovered: python gnu standard c++ library libICE 1.0.7 libpng 1.2.47 libSM 1.2.0 libXrender 0.9.6

robert.knight said:

Mendeley Desktop's requirements are based around a default install of an Ubuntu LTS release, not around a specific set of libraries. Mendeley Desktop should currently work with an out-of-the-box install of Ubuntu 8.04 or equivalently new or later. Ubuntu 10.04 - 12.04 are the most well tested distributions.

full screen button for mac os

2012-05-14T08:03:14-04:00

mcastel suggested:
Introduce a mac os full screen feature, to easily maximize the application across the whole desktop

make mendeley portable and allow creating user defined citation style

2012-05-14T05:40:52-04:00

Update vancouver citation style [updated]

2012-05-14T04:49:54-04:00

Recently, I had to revise my citations and bibliography manually to meet the referencing requirements for an Elsevier Journal using Vancouver. Looks like the Vancouver citation style in Mendeley needs to be updated for the in-text citation as well as the Reference list at the end. I am listing below some of the discrepancies I discovered through the submission process so that these could be incorporated in Mendeley: 1- The in-text citation should be in superscipt instead of running text 2- Upto six authors can be mentioned instead of just three in the current version 3- An abbreviated version of the Journal name needs to be cited instead of the full name 4- The issue number should not be mentioned; while the volume number of the Journal needs to be highlighted in Bold I checked with Zotero users and apparently they face similar issues. The Vancouver format is one of the most commonly used ones and it reflects badly if the format is not styled properly. Therefore, it is something that Mendeley might have to modify on its own on an urgent basis.

Anonymous said:

@Roland

You might be able to solve the webpage citing problem by going to the Medeley Plug-in > Chose Style > Other Sytles > Select "Only for webpages" in the include URLs and Date Accessed in Bibliographies button at the bottom of the list options.

Hope this helps.

Regards.

Sort according to the date of publication in search window (Search Results in desktop version)

2012-05-13T20:21:47-04:00

fix a bug where my folders on the right hand side of Mendeley do not show their names, but blank spaces. [updated]

2012-05-13T18:49:32-04:00

Anonymous said:

Sorry, it is on the left side. I can only see what is written if I click to rename.

fix a bug where my folders on the right hand side of Mendeley do not show their names, but blank spaces.

2012-05-13T17:51:11-04:00

android [updated]

2012-05-13T17:11:04-04:00

An android app to access Mendely from android phones would be welcome (when all bugs in the desktop app are fixed ;-) Best Claude

osm said:

@Anonymous (09 May). Both Papers and Zotero seem unlikely to have an official Android app any time soon. Zotero encourage 3rd party app development via their API, like Mendeley. The only reference manager I have noticed with an official Android app is Qiqqa. But on the downside, there is no Mac or Linux version of Qiqqa.

android [updated]

2012-05-13T16:21:59-04:00

An android app to access Mendely from android phones would be welcome (when all bugs in the desktop app are fixed ;-) Best Claude

NON YA said:

Looking over all the comments, isn't it obvious that Mendeley needs to develop a mobile app???? Android has a larger market share than apple, yet they developed one for OSX. Get with in Mendeley......

android [updated]

2012-05-13T16:18:50-04:00

An android app to access Mendely from android phones would be welcome (when all bugs in the desktop app are fixed ;-) Best Claude

NON YA said:

PLEASE DEVELOP AN APP FOR ANDROID THAT LETS YOU SO MUCH AS LOG IN TO MENDELEY. BOTH SCHOLARLEY AND DROIDELY ARE FAILING RIGHT NOW. THIS IS PITIFUL SUPPORT.

Insert citations and bibliographies into Google Docs [updated]

2012-05-13T14:11:20-04:00

Find a way to insert citations and automatically generate bibliographies (just like with the Word Plugin) in Google Docs.

rdmpage said:

Alf Eaton has created a Javascript tool to add citations to a Google Docs document, see http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001946.html. It includes some Mendeley integration. A little clunky, but a great starting point if anyone wants to tackle this problem.

Among the document types, it would be essential to add the category "review article": book reviews are a specific category

2012-05-13T04:44:23-04:00

Labels for documents (like GMail)

2012-05-12T12:34:24-04:00

yanlinlin82 suggested:
Labels (rather than folders) for documents (like GMail) should be more useful, since many documents could be put into different categories simultaneously.

Manage bibliographic information

2012-05-12T05:49:13-04:00

Anonymous suggested:
I really love the feature that recognizes information (such as authors, institutions ex.) as you type. The problem, however, is that due to various reasons a host of different variations of the same item occur. What would be really great is if you would ad a editing option where you can straighten all of this out! Keep up the good work!

save highlighted text to notes [updated]

2012-05-11T23:08:12-04:00

Or to a new section so I will have a possibility to take a look at all highlights in one place

Anonymous said:

A little cue for this: Kindle.

Export Attached Files (Pdf's) [updated]

2012-05-11T11:17:34-04:00

If I select a number of references with attached files (pdf's), I need to be able to export/save/send these pdf's to a destination folder (f.i. on a memory stick). Now, I can only export the references at once, not the Pdf's (the actual papers). To export the papers, I have to open them 1 by 1 and copy-paste them separately ("open file externally", "open file in containing folder"...). This seems a waste of time and effort. Typical Scenario: as a researcher/lecturer I meet with a student or colleague; we select a number of relevant references in my library, and, of course, they want to copy and read the papers (the attached pdf's). So I have to copy them 1 by 1. It would be very convenient if I could not only export the references, but also the attached files at once to a destination folder (a shared folder, a memory stick, ...). Am I the only one needing this feature? Thank you in advance!

Kafka said:

I agree it is most needed. Any way of merging with the other similar request?
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/1186641-bulk-export-pdf

Document the Mendeley Desktop dependencies

2012-05-11T09:50:47-04:00

Anonymous suggested:
Currently there seems to be no way to discover the list of Mendeley Desktop runtime dependencies and their versions except by trying to run it and decipher the error messages. The (probably incomplete) list of dependencies I've discovered: python gnu standard c++ library libICE 1.0.7 libpng 1.2.47 libSM 1.2.0 libXrender 0.9.6

Recently Opened Documents [updated]

2012-05-11T09:18:35-04:00

Please could you have a menu item which lists the most recently looked-at papers (e.g. the last 5 pdfs I opened)

Lennart Lyngsaae Olsen said:

It would be even better if this 'history' was global across clients. Perfect for when reading on the laptop or tablet.

history of recently read articles [updated]

2012-05-11T09:13:48-04:00

It would be useful to have a list of all the articles that I read recently. An example use case: today I opened mendeley, and I couldn't remember which article I was reading yesterday, and I would like to find it because it contained an useful quote that I would like to read again.

Lennart Lyngsaae Olsen said:

It would also be great if this history was global across clients.

figure out a way for Mendeley to find articles on my computer after I move their pdf to a new folder. I'm tired of re-importing files

2012-05-11T08:26:34-04:00

Citation formatting failed.Mendeley 1.01. Word 2010. [updated]

2012-05-11T07:23:56-04:00

New install of word 2010. New mendeley 1.01. I open a blank document and tried to insert a citation and I get the following error : Citation formatting failed. Thanks.

Anonymous said:

Hola !
este error (en mi caso) creo fue motivado por copiar y pegar entre documentos con citaciones en diferentes formatos o con números coincidentes. Tengo la precaución ahora de copiar ´texto sin formato´ entre documentos y no volvió a suceder. Espero tengan suerte !

allow "unpublished work" checkbox in Mendeley Desktop [updated]

2012-05-11T06:11:55-04:00

I cannot check 'unpublished work - exclude from Mendeley catalogue' in Mendeley Desktop. Why?

Charles Elworthy said:

I join with others, such as Jadrian Miles, who have grave concerns about sensitive information. I now understand that we should use the "unpublished work" box to prevent automatic publication to the web, but I find this an unintuitive solution.

Many of us handle information which is commercially, politically, personally or in other ways sensitive in our databases. My concern is that an "accident" is going to occur, and a naive user is going to inadvertently put extremely sensitive information on the net. This could have a potentially very negative impact on Mendeley's otherwise excellent brand and inhibit the takeup of Mendeley by individuals and organisations. That would be a tragedy - I am a great supporter of the Mendeley idea.

Provide information about web catalogue status in desktop document list

2012-05-11T05:39:17-04:00

Charles Elworthy suggested:
Suggest information about the web catalogue status in the desktop document list, probably next to the "favorites", "read", and "file" columns on the left. This would improve the linkage between our personal libraries and the main Mendeley database and communities. Possible information would be "number of readers" or "number of groups using".

Allow selection of primary file for preview [updated]

2012-05-11T02:35:36-04:00

Many of my articles have supporting information that I like to keep as a second file with the primary article. However, in a number of cases it has become the default file to open with Mendeley Desktop and I can't change it or reorder the files in any way. In addition, "my publications" which are uploaded to mendeley web have the same problem and the previews of almost all of my papers has defaulted to the supporting information file instead of the main text. Please implement some way to choose which file is primary and which is secondary.

Anonymous said:

This would also be helpful when merging duplicate files, although the files might be very similar, sometimes I wish I could open the second one externally by simple right clicking....

Add a Tab "References" beside Details and Notes and import the paper's bib so can instantly see cit [updated]

2012-05-10T18:19:38-04:00

Having to scroll to the end of the paper to see numeric cites or new authors is SO time consuming as there's no link to each citation then easy way to get back to the cite in the paper

Ben said:

I posted a similar suggestion on the Mendeley advisor's group a couple of weeks back - I completely agree this is now one of my major qualms with reading papers on the pc (not just in mendeley). I have taken to printing out the reference pages at the end of the paper so that I can look at both the bulk text and the references. A separate references tab would be perfect, especially if the extracted citation information was displayed as a link directly to the paper online, eg DOI.

add "Note" as a reference type

2012-05-10T13:39:50-04:00

Nathan suggested:
Occasionally I need to write short footnotes in numbered Reference lists. I would like to see a Note reference type to facilitate this process. It is possible to insert text as some other reference type and manually delete the "n.d.", but this gets tedious on multiple revisions. This link summarises the process in Endnote: http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au/learning-objects/libguides/EndNote/15e-formattingX4.pdf Perhaps this has been suggested previously, or is already implemented by another name, but I couldn't find it. Thanks!

Make it clear if Mendeley works with NeoOffice (Mac) or not. [updated]

2012-05-10T13:08:43-04:00

Make it clear if Mendeley works with NeoOffice (Mac) or not. From a very few mentions, it seems like it does. But I can't get the Mendeley toolbar in NeoOffice to do anything (I am not actually sure how it installed), and I can't (yet) find any documentation to help.

Carmine said:

Support for NeoOffice was dropped with version 1.5. I started a vote to bring it back. Wothout it I'll switch to Zotero. In the meantime, you can vote here:
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/2835657-please-bring-neooffice-support-back

Include a filtering feature for group searches. For example, I'd like to be able to exclude groups with less than 10 papers.

2012-05-10T12:33:01-04:00

Unsorted category within groups [updated]

2012-05-10T10:04:33-04:00

Unsorted papers in the main library have their own category, but there does not appear to be an analogous category within groups.

Anonymous said:

This would be a very good feature and should be pretty easy to implement.

Usecase:
Search for new papers and quickly read them
Sort them in an appropriate folder E.g Simulation.
Simulation consists of several folders e.g Real-time and offline
but at this time you don't know which one to take.
After searching you want to read the newly added files about simulation.
But now you have to parse all newly added files, because it is not in the unsorted folder anymore.
It would be much more convienient to have a folder uncategorized in the simulation folder.
Of course this could be done manually but an automatic solution that searches all files in a category which are not a member of a subcategory would be more convenient.