Remember open tabs and position within PDFs
When closing Mendeley, have the option to remember the current open PDF documents and also the scroll position you're currently at within the PDF. Similar to what Firefox does with open tabs and what PDF viewers when re-opening a PDF doc.
rvidal
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35 comments
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rowed79
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I like this idea, and recommend a way to take it one step further, and that is simply to be able to drag tabs into a collection. Often I scan several documents quickly, eliminating the ones that are irrelevant, then searching again, and repeating. This leaves me with several tabs up, but ones which are somewhat uncorrelated. If I could drag these tabs into a collection, then when I re-open the application, I can just open that collection and work from the appropriate grouping of papers.
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Neil
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This would be a really useful feature because researchers typically have several papers open at the same time and if there is a crash one would be able to reconstruct the chain of references as they were opened. (E.g. Google Chrome remembers and restores open tabs after a crash.) Just today, I had to restart my Mac and lost all the open tabs. (Related to this is a feature to save and restore open tabs as done by Session Buddy for Chrome.) Mendeley is a browser for documents, so having certain tab restoring capabilities would make sense.
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fred pinto
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really crucial to be implemented; only option right now is to keep mendeley running all the time (and never turn the computer off)...
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Ben
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Really really need this and agree with Matt Habermehl's comment; I can't believe that there isn't more votes!
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Aijun Bai
commented
I need this!
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James G
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This feature is really essential - I commonly lose track of what I have been reading the previous day, which loses me a lot of time. I could theoretically add tags to things each day, but this is also rather cumbersome. Just a button to remember which tabs were open when I finish for the day would be really useful.
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Jim Hokanson
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A few comments:
1) There is already a link to this feature from the other, might as well link the other way, especially since I think they are related yet very different, please vote for this other one as well!
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/397715-history-of-recently-read-articles
Like a browser, this might be the restore last session, that might be your browsing history, I'd like both!
2) Somewhat related, but with the addition of subfolders those have a viewing property as well that could be remembered. The current behavior is to expand all folders on startup -
Adminrobert.knight
(Admin, Mendeley)
commented
Hello - Mendeley Desktop 1.0 remembers your position within a paper. It does not currently remember the open tabs when you close Mendeley.
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morph208
commented
That'd be a great feature for sure! Needs to remember the zoom status as well. At the moment each time you switch tabs you have to zoom out again!
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Gurung commented
remember what is the thing you last highlighted, which pdf you opened. Place a bookmark option for us to remember the pages we were reading and the pdf of course.
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Sina
commented
+3!!!
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student
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remember the zoom status too.
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Fabio
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"Further to this, if I open a file (which opens in a tab obviously) I set the zoom several levels down - as I don't want to read 3ft characters on my monitor. If I switch between tabs the zoom level is set back to default every time.
Would be great if this was remembered as well."
I absolutely agree on this +1
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pablo
commented
Please implement this, I have to write down all the pdf's I was viewing each time I have to reboot, grr!
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Alain
commented
great idea. Basically, having the same tab functionality than Firefox will be nice. Please!
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Damien Farrell
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+3
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Christopher Bull
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"I cringe every time I need to reboot my computer..." - @Matt: That's exactly how I (and many others I am sure) feel :(
Further to this, if I open a file (which opens in a tab obviously) I set the zoom several levels down - as I don't want to read 3ft characters on my monitor. If I switch between tabs the zoom level is set back to default every time.
Would be great if this was remembered as well.
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Mog
commented
+3...
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Matt Habermehl commented
I cringe every time I need to reboot my computer because I know my place in my research will be lost. Please implement! Love, a paying customer.
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Fabricio Vasselai
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It is really incredible that this feature is not at least "under review"! Wow! That is a just must have... Please!
