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• Alper Tolga Kocatas commented  ·  May 15, 2013 4:30 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I also think that this feature will add to the value of Mendeley...

• Job Godino commented  ·  March 6, 2013 9:22 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please give us the ability to sort by Tags and Keywords...pretty please.

• Eric Antillon commented  ·  February 26, 2013 3:02 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Such a simple feature that has been long requested, I don't get it, I believe that this is not even that much too ask from ALL of us. ADD ANOTHER OPTION TO CREATE SUBFOLDERS UNDER 'TAG' OR 'COLLECTION NAMES'. Just one of the two at least, you don't have to fulfill both. It just doesn't make sense how this has been requested SOOO long ago and cannot seem to be completed. I personally think Mendeley's interface and features are among the best one can wish for, why not add such a simple feature to help all of us, pleeease!!!

• Stefano commented  ·  January 20, 2013 7:50 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  yes, at least create subfolders by tag, or by the corresponding folder in Mendeley

• Anonymous commented  ·  November 15, 2012 9:46 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Sort by tag !!!!
  Thanks

• Carsten Lemmen commented  ·  July 16, 2012 2:44 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I want to sort by file size

• Thijs commented  ·  June 25, 2012 11:53 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Sorting currently works in a non-affordance way. If one sorts by author, but then decides to sort by year, the inner-sort (or second sort, or whatever you call it) is set to author as this was the last way of sorting.
  This is troublesome when in teamwork you decide to split the papers to be read to certain years/months, and you want to keep track where you by for example placing a star at the last read paper. The article with the star can shift in the list as different inner-sort methods are applied at various computers where previously on other attributes has been sorted.

  An easy solution is to create (dropdown) buttons that allow users to set the sort method like a drildown function (first sort on this, then this)
  This would also make integration of the below mentioned comments easy.

  Thanks btw. for a fantastic program (except for this issue) we're using it for a literature review of over 1200 papers and it proves to be great!

• Levi commented  ·  June 10, 2012 1:34 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Seeing all your positive and enthusiastic comments I wonder how such a technically simple feature can stay unresolvd since 2010... Would this feature be good for the business of mendeley? Hm... in the end they want to earn money as everyone else. And with this it naturally comes that they want to keep people with mendeley. Now, what do you do if you decide not to use mendeley any more? Mendeley is imo pretty much better than the other similar services. So if you want to quit, I bet you do not go to another one, but you would want to manage your pdf's yourself without any such system. And now it comes: for that you would put your files into directories according to topics. Now, this is exactly what this feature would do.

  (Pls don't misunderstand, I'm not claiming that any of the guys working at Mendeley thinks of this. I just say, that this feature would not necessarily help their business. And as long as there are few people for whom the features that help to leave a system are among the most important criteria when selecting a system, this will work like a trap. I just noticed this, now, too late: I have so many collections, I just would not have the time to rebuild all this in the form of directories...)

• Catherine commented  ·  May 9, 2012 4:37 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I would like to physically separate (in subfolders) papers on my reading list (tag= 2read) from the others that are already read and processed (tag=done). And to physically separate my collections. Allowing the use of tags to create new subfolders (and maybe assigning tags to the new saved pdfs) would be extremely helpful!

• Catherine commented  ·  May 9, 2012 4:28 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I would like to physically separate (in subfolders) papers on my reading list (tag= 2read) from the others that are already read and processed (tag=done). And to physically separate my collections. Allowing the use of tags to create new subfolders (and maybe assigning tags to the new saved pdfs) would be extremely helpful!

• Wilson Lou commented  ·  April 10, 2012 6:00 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I think allowing sorting by last author names will be very good

• Kacper Rucinski commented  ·  March 23, 2012 2:22 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Absolutely. Brilliant idea.

  Additionally, I would go further to suggest that file organise/rename options are made more flexible.

  For example, I need to have files named:
  [year] Title
  that is, using square brackets around the year. Possibly also, [year.month] Title - with a four-digit year and two-digit month, with period mark between.

  So, +1 for flexibility in file sorting and file naming.

• Emad Barakat commented  ·  March 20, 2012 4:27 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  File Organizer by folder Already in My library.

• Miguel Angel Prieto Lage commented  ·  January 13, 2012 2:26 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please this suggestion is a duplicate of http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/259141-organize-files-by-collection. Which it will make 1406 (824+582 at 13/01/2012) votes being within the ten top suggestions and it is one of the oldest on the list.

  Please, if a revision would not be scheduled, let us know in order to decide whether to stay with Mendeley or move to another database software.

• Xiong Hui commented  ·  November 16, 2011 4:47 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  need it!

• Timothée Poisot commented  ·  November 7, 2011 12:29 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I think it can be merged with another request : http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/1282457-enable-more-options-for-file-naming-

  Any chance this will happen soon?

• ItalicSquirrel commented  ·  October 24, 2011 4:33 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I think the thread starter is talking about subfolders on the hard disk, not in Mendeley (as robert.knight has stated below). Also, the most recent "anonymous" has a point as well. We need more file renaming options.
  Btw, this also seems to be a duplicate of http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/139085-should-add-existing-metadata-fields-to-the-file-re

• wanderlust commented  ·  September 16, 2011 11:11 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Maybe someone posted this somewhere but I don't see it.

  A suggested work around for sorting your pdf files into subfolders. Within a collection, ctrl+a+right click; or ctrl+a then ctrl+e. Export to Endnote XML. This saves all the pdfs from the collection into a folder associated with the XML. Rename them using a file renaming utility.

• pnj commented  ·  September 8, 2011 11:53 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  As noted below, this idea should be merged with
  http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/259141-organize-files-by-collection?ref=title

  Subfolders are sorely needed, please!

• Jean-Daniel commented  ·  August 25, 2011 4:28 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It would also be nice if it simply would keep the subfolder organisation made in desktop when moving on to mobile app