Mendeley on UserVoice

Can you add Journal of Clinical Oncology to your list of citation styles? It's a very high impact journal!!

2012-02-11T15:13:05-08:00

add visualization/organization tools

2012-02-11T13:51:13-08:00

Julian suggested:
It will be amazing if there were a way to create folders of papers in a more graphical way. Also something else that will be great to have is an automatic paper sorter and linker, this will find relationships between papers through their citations and the topics

Pen tool for annotations [updated]

2012-02-11T09:48:03-08:00

Make a pen tool for drawing free-hand annotations in the built-in pdf reader. Or at least make tools for making circles and arrows. I love drawing on my pdfs!

poji said:

3 years....When will our dream come true?

smarter Watched folders for sub-folders [updated]

2012-02-11T08:55:09-08:00

there should be a feature that watches the sub-folders automatically but on an individual basis. So if I put files in a folder in a folder, mendeley automatically updates all files and that sub-folder. So what I want is smarter folder system to be applied.

Anonymous said:

This feature extremely useful when we combined the Dropbox and the Mendeley!!!! In this case, we can shut down the "move attachments" option and let the sub-folders connect to the watched folder which on the Dropbox directory.

A go-back to previous viewed page button

2012-02-11T08:29:29-08:00

A suggested:
Useful when you are reading on one page of a paper and click the citation link to see the relating paper at the end, and then quickly come back to where you were reading just by clicking a button.

Keyboard shortcuts

2012-02-11T08:19:11-08:00

Anonymous suggested:
Shortcuts for the reading functions (Highlight text; add note; select text etc) would be great!

save highlighted text to notes [updated]

2012-02-11T00:13:22-08:00

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

Kevin Zhang said:

This topic actually has 496 votes.

Such a function would be invaluable to reviewing research, especially when doing literature reviews.
Thank you.

199 - save highlighted text to notes
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/343854-save-highlighted-text-to-notes

122 - Print an Annotated Bibliography
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/345906-print-an-annotated-bibliography

63 - Copy highlighted text from a pdf document to the "notes" section, or a separate tab
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/1265619-copy-highlighted-text-from-a-pdf-document-to-the-

53 - annotation and highlight report
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/1145271-annotation-and-highlight-report

47 - Add a list of all PDF text annotations to record summary under the Tag&Notes section or a new tab
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/315052-add-a-list-of-all-pdf-text-annotations-to-record-s

12 - Add a 'highlight and extract to note' tool
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/1049463-add-a-highlight-and-extract-to-note-tool

0 - Select references from library to create (annotated) bibliography
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/2299319-select-references-from-library-to-create-annotate

openoffice 3.3 does not use the unopkg tool, so I have to look for other refman, pity [updated]

2012-02-11T00:01:33-08:00

Anonymous said:

Hi Guys, I located unopkg file, but then got following message: Couldn't Install OpenOffice Plugin The OpenOffice unopkg utility gave the following output: . Did not show any output.

Word 2011 Mac

2012-02-10T20:25:33-08:00

Marcia Walker suggested:
Please provide information on how to get word 2011 for the Mac plugin needs to be posted at the site.

Go to tab using menu

2012-02-10T13:07:48-08:00

James suggested:
There should be a menu (or pop-up menu) that allows selection of tabs. This would be useful for when there are too many tabs to see at once, or when one needs to see the full name of a tab. Safari, for example, has a pop-up menu on the right side of the tab bar when there are too many tabs to display at once. Using the arrow to cycle through tabs is awkward.

In the library view, wrap the author name(s) similarly to the title [updated]

2012-02-10T12:19:24-08:00

I realize that this feature may have been omitted for aesthetics, because wrapping the author names around may make it harder to scan the author column by the first listed author. However, since many papers have several authors it is helpful to view as many authors at once as possible. Each paper has two lines of text reserved for it, regardless of whether or not the second line is required. The document title wraps around to the second line when necessary, and it would be helpful if the author list did as well.

Gwendolyn Bennett said:

It's very important to know the last author of a paper, so it makes it important to be able to see all the authors in the list. Either wrap the authors like the title does (as suggested above) or use an ellipsis to shorten the field and show the first few and the last (whatever will fit).

ISO 690, ISO 690-2 support [updated]

2012-02-10T12:18:21-08:00

Most citation managers do not support ISO 690 and even if they do it is not complete - for all types of source. In Europe, ISO 690 is one of most used citation styles.

Adam Sabla said:

I have this problem too. The support of ISO 690 is incomplete, I have to manually adjust the work :/

Is it planned to be solved?

increase the number of paper tabs you can see along the top when opened in desktop version [updated]

2012-02-10T12:14:39-08:00

James said:

What would be great is if there was a pop-up menu that allowed selection of tabs (like in Safari).

mendeley for android tablet pc [updated]

2012-02-10T10:16:02-08:00

A mendeley version for andriod tablet pc like the ipad one would be great.

Anonymous said:

I thought it was possible to have Mendeley in my tablet lenovo

More control over pdf file/folder and cite key convention [updated]

2012-02-10T09:43:59-08:00

Since everyone has their own way of naming files/folders for storing the pdfs of papers, it would be great if there were greater control of it, giving access to things like author surname, initials, first letters of each title word. My preference in both filename and cite key, for example, is <surname><initials><year><first letter of first three words of title>. This allows me to easily disambiguate multiple publications by the same person in one year and help me find things without having to open the file. It would also be good to have these names put together without spaces or '-' type characters, using camel case.

Anonymous said:

Personally I use <firstauthor>_<year>_<a,b,c,d,...>

I think bibdesk has a very good solution to this.

I would like to be able to just use the cite key as the PDF name.

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

2012-02-10T08:13:46-08:00

Beniamino Guerra said:

Variety of highlight colors requested please

PDF annotations should be compatible with other PDF readers [updated]

2012-02-10T07:37:53-08:00

Anonymous said:

Absolutely essential. I'd like all annotations created in the Mendeley viewer to be written to the PDF file so that I can see them with other applications (aren't PDF annotations part of the PDF specs?) Further, I'd like to be able to edit annotations made in other applications with the Mendeley viewer.

Ability to set external pdf viewer [updated]

2012-02-10T07:25:51-08:00

I would like to have the ability to choose which pdf viewer to use to read papers. I think a similar feature request was closed a couple of weeks ago ("allow to set which pdf viewer to use") with the suggestion of changing the default pdf viewer for the system. However, I have multiple pdf viewers installed: a lightweight one that I use for most pdfs, and a more complete one with the ability to highlight and take notes that I use for reading papers. The former is my system defaults, but I would like to use the latter in Mendeley. Even if an internal pdf viewer has been planned for the next release, it would be very good to give the user the ability to choose if to use the internal viewer or some other fancy external viewer. thanks, mirko.

Anonymous said:

This would be great. I use Skim for academic papers but my system default is Preview and I don't want to change it.

Allow printing of PDF papers within Mendeley Desktop [updated]

2012-02-10T05:11:06-08:00

A simple "Print" menu under File would be good. Control-P doesn't even work now though.

Daniel Kurjak said:

Control-P doesn't work to me neither.

Add a "wishlist" function to highlight/list papers you want to read from a parental paper

2012-02-10T05:02:28-08:00

Laura suggested:
When users read a paper, they may want to read a few of the papers referenced in that paper afterwards, but maybe not straight away. It might be useful to be able to mark those up in a sort of "whishlist" as in Amazon or Librarything.

Fix a bug: Copy citation often doesn't work! [updated]

2012-02-10T04:41:27-08:00

Both cmd-C and menu item "Copy citation" just often does not work. It does not copy to the clipboard.

Daniel Kurjak said:

Hi, I have the same problem.. It worked yesterday only. Today - no response...
Not even special paste helped :(

save pdf metadata directly to file like in mp3s [updated]

2012-02-10T02:56:29-08:00

Rasmus K. Rendsvig said:

I threw 3 votes because I cannot think of anything more important to be implemented!
I have just re-installed my OS, and I took for granted that Mendeley did this already. Alas, I have a lot of document merging to do.

BUG: Mendeley cannot sync files to the web

2012-02-10T02:41:00-08:00

Laura suggested:
When I try to sync my library to the web, the sync stops at 30% and this message appears: "Problems when syncing: 'The client sent through an inaccessible document ID' " This is preventing me from sharing documents with my colleagues through groups

Allow printing of PDF papers within Mendeley Desktop [updated]

2012-02-10T02:04:13-08:00

A simple "Print" menu under File would be good. Control-P doesn't even work now though.

Anonymous said:

We need official reply from mendeley about printing issue !!!!

Journal abbreviations [updated]

2012-02-09T18:15:43-08:00

Currently the "Nature" style is not correct due to no distinction between journal and journal abbreviation. It would be nice to offer an option of an abbreviation list of journals like in JabRef.

Alex Chubaty said:

@Simon Tyler: thanks for your script, I'll check it out -- (didn't read all the messages previously in this thread)

Journal abbreviations [updated]

2012-02-09T17:41:17-08:00

Currently the "Nature" style is not correct due to no distinction between journal and journal abbreviation. It would be nice to offer an option of an abbreviation list of journals like in JabRef.

Simon Tyler said:

@Anonymous: Many people are just pointing out that this should be the bread and butter of a reference manager. It should not require any mucking around with files and directories. So they're merely adding their voices in the hope that this will be made a stronger priority.

Also, the solution you're pointing to, does not work for BibTeX. To fix the bibtex journal abbreviations, you can use either the perl script that Alex just posted, or the python script (http://pastebin.com/xE6PHEsN) that I posted here in July last year.

Journal abbreviations [updated]

2012-02-09T17:12:01-08:00

Currently the "Nature" style is not correct due to no distinction between journal and journal abbreviation. It would be nice to offer an option of an abbreviation list of journals like in JabRef.

Alex Chubaty said:

Fantastic tip to get abbreviated journal names.

I put together a perl script that uses the info from the Mendeley-generated BibTeX files to get the names of the journals you have in your library, and get the corresponding abbreviated names based on the ISI abbreviations. Check it out http://alexchubaty.com/node/15

*it's my first time writing in perl, so I'm sure there are improvements that can be made to the script

Upload PDFs using Mendeley website interface [updated]

2012-02-09T15:36:27-08:00

When I'm at a computer without Mendeley Desktop installed, I would like to be able to add a reference/document by uploading the PDF to the website. Currently, the 'Add Document' button on the website only allows for manually adding the reference info. Pressing 'Add Document' should also bring up a Browse button that allows you to locate and upload a document from your computer to the web.

Patrik D'haeseleer said:

Ditto!

Add an option to use (1) the PMID and (2) a link to a Webcite page in the bibliography. [updated]

2012-02-09T14:06:34-08:00

I'm currently writing a paper that requires both variables in the bibliography, and I can't seem to edit the csl enough to get them out. According to the CSL language specification, there is no variable for PMID although there is a field for it in Mendeley (just below DOI, which you *can* call in the CSL...)

Andy Maloney said:

There is an option for PMID and PMCID in CSL 1.01. A work around would be to put the PMID in the URL section. Then create a "pmid" macro that uses the URL variable.
<macro name="pmid">
<text variable="URL"/>
</macro>
Then, in the bibliography section, add this where you want it to show up in the citation.
<text macro="pmid" prefix=". PMID:"/>

Irritating...I know but it works.

Edit in-text citations [updated]

2012-02-09T13:13:49-08:00

I would love to be able to edit in-text citations without it being a pain, and also to maintain the bibliography link. Currently, I add a citation into the text of my word file, and as an example, it appears as (Sahlins 1972). However, if in my text I already mention the author's name, I only want the date to show up, like "...as is argued by Sahlins (1972), the term..." Another example is if several citations are added as examples of a statement, requiring the use of "e.g." within the parentheses, thus requiring the citation to be edited. The inserted citation does allow editing, but every so often a confirmation box pops up telling me that I need to switch back to the original or it will lose the bibliography link (which also changes it back to the original regardless of whether I click OK or Cancel, by the way). Can this be changed to allow editing while maintaining that link?

Roberto Perez-Franco said:

This is a deal breaker for me.

integrate Mendeley with RSS readers

2012-02-09T11:12:25-08:00

Anonymous suggested:
integrate Mendeley with RSS readers, such as Google reader.

In-program PubMed search & Metadata Retrieval [updated]

2012-02-09T11:08:16-08:00

An in-program browser where users can go to PubMed (or a specific Journal's website) and search an article. On downloading it, Mendeley will automatically extract the Metadata and possibly archive the file.

Anonymous said:

This would be absolutely essential if Mendeley wants to compete effectively with Papers....

Office 2010 64 bit plugin [updated]

2012-02-09T09:31:17-08:00

Since Mendeley desktop is not working for the 64 bit version of Microsofts Office 2010 TP, it would be great to build a version of Mendeley Desktop compatible with the 64 bit version of Office 64 bit as soon as possible. The beta phase of Office 2010 is start very soon (November) and that would be a great opportunity to test Mendeley Desktop for this Office version as well.

Anonymous said:

Is there a solution in the near future? This is the time announced for the 64 bit compatible beta version!

More Customisable Table View in Mendeley Desktop [updated]

2012-02-09T09:15:34-08:00

The ability to hide, add, and drag into different orders, columns in the table view would be great.

FL said:

That star column is just about useless.

Office 2010 64 bit plugin [updated]

2012-02-09T08:46:12-08:00

robert.knight said:

Hello Aniel,

If you have a 32bit version of Office (including Word 2003 or 2007) installed or OpenOffice installed you can use that.

We'll have a preview of the next Mendeley release available soon which works with 64bit versions of Office, so if you don't need it right away, check back in a week or so.

Journal abbreviations [updated]

2012-02-09T08:32:04-08:00

Currently the "Nature" style is not correct due to no distinction between journal and journal abbreviation. It would be nice to offer an option of an abbreviation list of journals like in JabRef.

Anonymous said:

For those of you who would rather complain about this problem than scroll through the comments and see there is a very simple manual fix...stop complaining. Look on page 2~3 of the comments or check the below similar article with less comments. It is as simple as creating a folder with a text file in it! Steve.ridout has done a nice job explaining this.

http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/questions/179297-how-to-enable-journal-abbreviations-?new=179297

Improve BibTeX export with special characters [updated]

2012-02-09T05:44:42-08:00

BibTeX export has issues with multiple special characters when exported, I believe an easy fix would be to add surround all escaped or modified stuff with {}. Example, the swedish letter "å" is exported to "\aa " which contains an extra space, just using "{\aa}" would fix the issue.

EmpIzza said:

@Gregor: Works nice in theory, but what about "På båten" => "Påbåten". One cannot just kill the space after \AA // \aa, it might be needed. "på båten" => "p\aa b\aa ten" (ONE space). Ergo surjective...

maintain filename across sync and rename [updated]

2012-02-09T05:41:37-08:00

I have a the chapters for a textbook in pdf format. Rather than creating a new entry for every chapter, I created one entry for the book and added each chapter. On sync (and rename) all of the files change to the standard: "Author Year Title(12).pdf" Unfortunately, I cannot know which chapter was which. The number rename seems arbitrary and is not reproduced across computers. A very simple and useful option could be: "Author Year Title - OriginalFilename.pdf" This is also a problem with other entries with multiple files. Another example is a poster from a conference where I possess a pdf of both the poster and the abstract. "Author Year Title - abstract.pdf" "Author Year Title - poster.pdf"

Anonymous said:

Consider adding your votes instead to the Planned improvement called "Distinct names for multiple files within a citation", which deals with several related problems with multiple chapters/files.

Add document type "collection" [updated]

2012-02-09T05:40:50-08:00

Similar to BibTeX, a doc type "collection" could be used to easily select a containing publication from the library. One would first enter the collection publication (which would have editors, not authors), then the chapters or articles. The same would work for proceedings.

Anonymous said:

Consider adding your votes instead to the Planned improvement called "Distinct names for multiple files within a citation", which deals with several related problems with multiple chapters/files.

Setup being able to organise (text)books by chapter in Mendeley desktop client [updated]

2012-02-09T05:39:51-08:00

When you import digital textbooks that have many chapters where each chapter has different authors the book becomes organised by author instead of chapter which can be very frustrating! Is there a way to organise imported books/textbooks such that the individual chapters can be sorted by chapter instead of author.

Anonymous said:

Consider adding your votes instead to the Planned improvement called "Distinct names for multiple files within a citation", which deals with several related problems with multiple chapters/files.

create duplicates [updated]

2012-02-09T05:39:23-08:00

enable the creation of duplicates, which can be useful if one has to cite several chapters of a book, and doesn't want to fill out all the common fields. an already entered chapter could be used as template, and only the relevant fields should be changed.

Anonymous said:

Consider adding your votes instead to the Planned improvement called "Distinct names for multiple files within a citation", which deals with several related problems with multiple chapters/files.

Improve BibTeX export with special characters [updated]

2012-02-09T05:36:56-08:00

Gregor said:

In the meantime you can fix it yourself, by replacing the problematic letters in the bibtex file somewhere in your latex build scripts.
e.g. sed -e 's/\\AA\ /\{\\AA\}/g' < old.bib > new.bib
http://www.linuxask.com/questions/replace-multiple-strings-using-sed

include a "duplicate entry" command. [updated]

2012-02-09T05:36:34-08:00

Would make it possible to enter (eg) multiple book sections/chapters without having to retype book details

Anonymous said:

Consider adding your votes instead to the Planned improvement called "Distinct names for multiple files within a citation", which deals with several related problems with multiple chapters/files.

Include Edited Books as Reference Type [updated]

2012-02-09T05:35:06-08:00

From the Reference type list, the edited Book type is missing. Often you want to refer to an complete edited volume, plus this makes it easier to enter several sections of one edited books.

Anonymous said:

Part of the problem can be solved by making it a book with no author but an editor.
The other part of the problem is with aligning the multiple chapters of such a book without lots of extra cutting and pasting. That problem is part of the "Planned" improvement called "Distinct names for multiple files within a citation". Consider adding your votes and comments there.

allow My Library to be organized with nested folders. [updated]

2012-02-09T05:29:22-08:00

I'd like to be able to have subfolders, so that I can organize the all the chapters of a book (which are in sparate PDF files) whithin a folder containing all the books of a subject. For example "calculus_chapter1.pdf", "calculus_chapter2.pdf", etc. can be placed withing a "calculus" folder, which is accessed through a "math" folder.

Anonymous said:

This partly overlaps with "Allow sub-groups in document groups" but also partly with "Distinct names for multiple files within a citation" which brings together several related improvements are needed for situations where multiple files/chapters are included in one citation.

Direct way to complete chapter reference after book reference has been included [updated]

2012-02-09T05:25:55-08:00

It is often the case that both the whole book and a specific chapter of the book need to be referenced. Much of the information will be the same, but will need to be re-entered for each reference. While I can extract book references from google books, I cannot extract chapter references. It would be very helpful to be able to retrieve the book details to create a new entry for a chapter from that book.

Anonymous said:

Several related improvements are needed for situations where multiple files are included in one citation. Consider combining your votes with the topic "Distinct names for multiple files within a citation".

Extract metadata of a book from section of it [updated]

2012-02-09T05:24:44-08:00

It would really be great to have an option to extract the metadata of a book from the one existing in an entry that has a booksection. Let's say you have an entry like this: Brown, P., "Cognitive Anthropology" in: Language, Culture, and Society, ed. by Jourdan, C. & Tuite, K. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 96-114. then it would be cool to have a button that makes a new entry with: Jourdan, C. & Tuite, K. (eds.) (2006), Language, Culture, and Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Anonymous said:

Show all articles of a book or journal [updated]

2012-02-09T05:21:39-08:00

It would be very nice to have a complete book or journal in the mendeley library with the possibility to show and cite all articles of it. Also the pdf version of complete eBooks or electronical published journals should be mapped to the individial articles.

Anonymous said:

extract book data automatically when adding a book chapter [updated]

2012-02-09T05:20:33-08:00

something should be added to the book references to be able to extract the reference of a specific book chapter, so it won't be necessary to write again the data that's already been stored

Anonymous said:

copy metadata b/w refs (i.e., for different book sections) [updated]

2012-02-09T05:17:51-08:00

Allow a duplicate reference to be entered (and immediately edited) for references involving multiple sections or chapters from the same book.

Anonymous said: