integrate mendeley with Google Drive....the SDK/API was announced yesterday and has the potential to be really powerful
See: https://developers.google.com/drive/
Files can be stored on Mendeley's servers but listed and indexed in individuals' Google Drives (the new name for Google Docs). Thus people can keep all their cloud services in one searchable virtual place.
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rich
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Mendeley is expensive for people outside of Academia - a syncing option with existing cloud services (like ad-free Dropbox or Drive) combined with a reduced price would help a lot of people. Surely, it's crazy to have a business model predicated on charging people for cloud storage they already have elsewhere!
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Praful P. Pai commented
All good points, but you forget that Mendeley, unlike Google, is not into advertising. So, Mendeley needs to keep the file storage on its own servers. It is probably Mendeley's primary source of income and I don't think this is viable for them to shift to gDrive and keep developing Mendeley as a free platform.
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René Clausen Nielsen
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The optimal solution would be integration both ways. I have a lot of my documents on Google Drive and would love to be able to 1) index some on Mendeley, 2) synchronize some of them to Mendeley. and 3) syncronize some from Mendeley.
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Anonymous
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It's a good idea. I agree with this!
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Anonymous
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It's a good idea. I agree with this!
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Jeremy Martinson
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I agree with this. In fact, as I am primarily syncing between a Mac at work and a Mac at home I could probably achieve this by locating the GDrive on the same path on both machines. To me, the whole point of putting all my PDFs on Mendeley and paying $5/mo for hosting was so that I could sync the database and PDFs to my iPad and carry my whole library with me. As the iPad app is wholly incapable of downloading and searching my library alone, even without the attached PDFs, I think I've wasted the money I have spent on this over the past year or so. I would be fine with keeping the library itself on Mendeley, and just storing the PDFs on GDrive or my SkyDrive.
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Michael Mebane commented
I'm glad someone else was thinking the same way! I hope this happens. Or how about just store them on GDrive to take advantage of the much cheaper pricing? Then Mendeley could just add the overlay of their network and bibliographical/note support on top of the files. I would use Mendeley about 1000% more if this was implemented.
