Smart categories
Create "smart" categories (like Papers software, on MacOS) that would search (with logical operators) for keywords within (selectable) author, title, abstract fields and automatically populate the categories with found articles, without manual intervention. Smart Categories cannot be populated manually and they can coexists with normal categories.
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This is something that we have discussed: we have a ticket open related to this one for a ‘Saved Search’ option which you can use to search for files by clicking a saved search criteria.
Additionally we have a ticket open for a ‘Recently Viewed’ option under a different ticket. If this is the feature you are voting for, please vote here instead: http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-general/suggestions/220568-recently-opened-documents as this forum is only for Smart Categories/Saved Search.
33 comments
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Carsten Lemmen commented
i guess this goes beyond the "Recently viewed" category insofar as it will be up to the user to define the criteria for this smart category. "Recently viewed" is then just one possible smart category with a criterion like "select documents where pdf was viewed; reverse order by view date; show first 10".
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You might want to call it "Smart Folders" as well, or "Smart collections". And not only make them rule-based. Any search should potentially be saveable as a "Saved Search" smart collection.
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osm
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I really like the idea in the previous comment for a pre-defined "recently viewed" smart folder.
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rowed79
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I would like to see this implemented, even if in a managed form, such as the "Recently Added" or "Favorites" folders that already exist. My main vote would be for a "Recently Viewed in Mendeley" folder, a way to sort papers according to the last time I've looked at them.
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osm
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To be of real use, this feature probably requires better search functionality than is currently available in Mendeley. I guess improving the search is probably a bigger job than implementing smart categories/saved search itself. The blog post on the 1.0 release states that better search will be coming in the next release.
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E. Bowman
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I would really like to see this feature implemented, and, as some other posters here in this forum have commented, it does not seem like an overwhelming task. The lack of this feature makes me wonder if I should look at alternatives, which is a shame given how much promise Mendeley has shown already.
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Leopold
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is it really so difficult?
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Carl Anderson
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I am kind of surprised that this is still "under review" and wasn't simply quickly rolled into the 1.0 release. It seems a no-brainer, really.
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Joon Ro
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This is a must!
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Gertjan Scholten
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One of the few things I still miss in Mendeley :)
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Carl Anderson
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The more I think about it -- and the more my library grows -- the more this feature seems inescapably vital!
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Chrissie
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I'd love this feature (please!). I really miss it (I was an Endnote user in a past life, shock, horror!!).
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tinka
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or compared to smar groups in endnote
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Jacks
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Switched from Papers but the lack of smart collection is such a drag! Implement now
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Claude Flener
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Smart folders is one of the things I miss the most in Mendeley compared to BibDesk
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Tim
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I agree - smart folders would be tremendously useful - really key feature that I was surprised not to find when I loaded up Mendeley.
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jharts
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Huh -- it never occurred to me that Mendeley *wouldn't* have this feature before I installed it. Had I known, I might not have bothered. Mendeley has some nice features Papers doesn't have, but none are nearly so important...
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Anonymous
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The lack of this feature is really holding Mendeley back from being one of the top reference managers. Please implement!
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A.Hariri commented
This one should be in Mendeley, no questions asked!!!
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sylvain deville
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A must have ! Folders are pretty useless otherwise.
