PDF Bookmarks/Table of Contents
I find somewhat annoying that there is no way to view the bookmarks/table of contents of the PDF that take me directly to certain pages. I think this is a must for long documents, scrolling directly all the time is a major hassle.
Thanks for the consideration
dukeofgaming
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This has been raised with our Development Team.
24 comments
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Anonymous
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Agreed, this would be a great feature! I see that robert.knight suggested an option to enable a version of this functionality in mendeley but not instructions how to turn that on....
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Anonymous
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the extra content tab works nicely..
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Kerem Eryilmaz
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I totally agree. And I don't see why this should take over TWO YEARS to implement properly. One of the reasons I switched to Mendeley was its PDF features, and it is disappointing to see it lag behind like this, especially when it is such a commonly requested feature.
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Bruno Braga commented
Annotations can become bookmarks whether they could be a document type in Mendeley.
The software has several document types, one similar ("book section"), but no type can be linked to an specific point of a PDF document, neither linked to an annotation made on that point. -
Anonymous
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it totally agree.
mendeley needs this. -
Robert Orzanna
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I second that request though at least it seems that Mendeley remembers the last page that has been opened.
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Coiby Xu
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Yes, we need such feature!
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Anonymous
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Any word on when this feature will be integrated? Thanks for your time
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Johnny
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totally agree, a Bookmarks tab next to Details and Notes would be very helpful
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MJ
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Agree. Those bookmarks should come also with a go back button.
Mendeley should also analyse the pdf file to extract the location of the main parts of the articles, especially the references. -
egozastler
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It wud be great to hav a list of al d bookmarks in mendeley so u can directly jump from 1 bookmark to d next (e.g. working on one subject with several sources).
Extremely useful wen working with ebooks as these are a pain in the brain to navigate (scroll to page xyz) -
Carrie
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I agree, I had exactly the same thought right now as I am concurrently reading two chapters in a large document and the constant scrolling is getting tiring.
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Carlos
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In fact, that would be terrific being able to see bookmarks, as well create my own.
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Nelson G. Souza
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It will be really great if I can add my own bookmarks, It is very usefull for readers and researchers.
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reader
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I found the note feature when "reading" a pdf file is quite handy (which is then searchable), but it would be great if it supports other "reading" features which are also essential:
1) to be able to navigate using existing PDF bookmarks. Currently there is no way to use the existing bookmarks as can be seen in other pdf reader.2) It would be a plus to be able to add user bookmarks which is a feature available in recent foxit reader, but not in others.
3) It would be a big plus to be able to remember which page I was last reading. Since it's not possible to finish reading a pdf file of a few hundred pages of ebooks in one reading, it's desirable to jump to the last reading place automatically when it's opened next time. I have been using digital edition for sometime only for this feature, but digital edition is lacking the function of organizer which is where Mendeley shines.
PS: it's possible to open a pdf file in an external reader, which is a workaround to make bookmark available, but the notes added in external reader(eg. foxit reader) are not visible/searchable in Mendeley.
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afe
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Here's a trick I use: you can add a note to the place you want to bookmark, then you can go back to this place by going to "Notes" tab, and clicking on the page number link. I was going to suggest a bookmarking function to Mendeley, but this trick basically does it. Still, would be nice to have bookmarks :)
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dubikan
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Agree. It's annoying when I want to check endnotes or bibliographic references that I can't easily return to where I was in the text.
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Carl Anderson
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It would likewise be handy to make existing PDF bookmarks visible (as, for example, they are in Acrobat) when they exist.
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Carl Anderson
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This would definitely be very useful. I commonly add "standard TOC-like" bookmarks to long documents (like ebooks, or doctoral dissertations) that are missing them, and often add my own custom bookmarks to PDFs that come with their own pre-defined bookmarks. Being able to use these directly within Mendeley (as opposed to having to open the PDF in Acrobat externally) would be useful.
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dukeofgaming
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Ok, just tested it, I assume scrolling is the missing feature here, useful though. Thanks.
