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• ItalicSquirrel commented  ·  October 24, 2011 04:22  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  File renaming with more options available is definitely necessary, e. g. journal volume, starting page... just customise it a bit. As for the journal abbreviations, you could always use the database jabRef is using for this.

• P. commented  ·  July 22, 2011 10:36  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It would be nice to be able to truncate file names, otherwise copy of the folder does not work properly in windows. It would also be great if we could choose to have some label in CAPITAL.

• ALoopingIcon commented  ·  February 21, 2011 08:07  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please add abbreviated Journal names and TAGS in the file rename tool

• Filipe Guimarães commented  ·  September 28, 2010 23:55  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  The organization of files needs a lot more improvements. Some files are renamed by first author "et al.", others have all authors names... And the option to rename with volume and pages is really necessary.

• Lisa DeBruine commented  ·  July 14, 2010 03:04  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  In addition to abbreviated journal names, first author and first letter of X are also essential.

  I set up BibDesk to file my papers in subfolders by the first letter of the first author's last name so I don't have to scroll through literally hundreds of files to find a paper by Yamagishi. Also, organising papers by all authors makes it difficult to find a paper by X if X publishes a lot with different sets of co-authors.

• sonofjon commented  ·  February 12, 2010 08:09  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I would like to see "Type" added to the file organizer options, since I want Books and Journal articles stored in different folders.

• anonymous commented  ·  January 28, 2010 13:11  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Yes, and only the first authors name and the citation key would be also a good renaming option!

• Dan commented  ·  December 12, 2009 20:19  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This would be more convinient if abbreviation of journals can be included in the rename tool

• Nils Bluemer commented  ·  November 23, 2009 02:08  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I agree: volume and page fields are absolutely essential. Also essential is an abbreviated journal name; however, for my taste, the abbreviation used in citations is still too long (and too clumsy with periods and spaces). So I would prefer a global mapping file "Journal full name" - "Journal abbreviation" - "Journal acronym"; the acronym should then go into file names. Alternatively, the abbreviation could be used after removing all spaces.

  Example for mappings: Physical Review A - Phys. Rev. A - PRA; Physical Review Letters - Phys. Rev. Lett. - PRL

  My convention for file names: Journal acronym - volume - page - 1st author, e.g. PRL_103_212501_Moeller.pdf

• abinitor commented  ·  November 11, 2009 13:01  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  My Mendeley version is 0.9.4.1, the latest version at this time (11/11/2009). The "Rename Documents Files..." function is great. The interface is a surprising design, but it is still awkward to use. There are only four choices: Title, Author, Year, and Journal. As already suggested, journal name abbreviation is a MUST. Using things like “Proceedings of the National Academy of Science United States of America” as filename is really not nice. I usually use “JournalNameAbbrev_Vol_FirstPage.pdf” or an extended version “FirstAuthor_OneKeyword_JournalNameAbbrev_Vol_FirstPage_Year.pdf”as my filename. The shorter version is actually the simplest choice to avoid filename confliction. Also, I feel that the ( et al.) in the "Author" field doesn't help any on identifying a file's contents. Actually, I’m still having an old habit of avoiding using spaces in filenames.

• filipa commented  ·  October 27, 2009 10:12  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I completely agree! And abbreviated journal names are really a must. In my case, I would like to rename my files like this:
  "abbreviated journal name-year-volume-first page.pdf"

• manderw commented  ·  July 02, 2009 01:50  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  And please, the ability to select a tag in the file renaming process, or to add some text that isn't in any of the fields.

• Markus C commented  ·  June 11, 2009 15:03  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I agree: volume and abbreviated journal names are a must, also the first author does not need a et.al. in the pdf name.

• Alexander Vozny commented  ·  March 18, 2009 12:00  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I usually add Vol. to the filename.
  And having the abbreviated Journal names is also a must.

• eme commented  ·  March 16, 2009 07:20  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  also include group and tags in the file organiser