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• Dirius commented  ·  September 03, 2011 12:56  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I would be much better if storage were organised by the folders into which users sorted their data and not by years/journal/author.

• Dahaniel commented  ·  March 15, 2010 04:18  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It would be perfect if the naming of the files would be more flexible. (I for example name my files "FirstauthorYEAR_JournalAbbreviation.pdf", therefore I can not use this feature right now)

• Fred commented  ·  October 01, 2009 09:42  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Or perhaps another option is to have a "category" or reference "topic" that each reference can only be assigned one to. This would be for the sake of organization. Groups can then be used like playlists in iTunes to allow that reference to be used in other sub-categories, or for the purpose of organizing references for your own paper.

• Fred commented  ·  October 01, 2009 09:26  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I've only just begun using Mendeley & I definitely like the approach. However, I'm like some of the other users here & would like to see the organize file feature allow groups (or maybe tags) as a folder option. I don't want to always have to open Mendeley just to find some reference. I backup/sync my files locally to a shared drive so I'm not always on a computer where Mendeley is installed (& wouldn't want to have to install it on every computer). Maybe some sort of soft-link or equivalent option could be used to prevent file duplication?

• Nicola commented  ·  September 25, 2009 01:01  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  If I add multiple files to the same document (e.g. the PDF and the source code in a compressed .rar file), I cannot choose which file is displayed by default when clicking on the document in the main frame. This is because it is not possible to manage the order of the files in "Document Details -> Files" and the default displayed file is the first of the list. It would be very useful if the user can force the PDF file (or .doc file) to be the default displayed file permitting the retrieval of the other files (typically the sources or additional information) only from "Document Details -> Files"

  I added a separate suggestion about it...

• Alexander Vozny commented  ·  June 17, 2009 10:54  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  After using Mendeley for a while I tend to agree that storing files in different folders is convenient.

  I also notice that I just don't have time to tag all my files, especially when I search online and find tens of them - I just save them in a specific folder (which corresponds to Mendeley group, i.e. some very broad topic) monitored by Mendeley.
  I want to say that Mendeley could assign the group based on the folder from which it captured the file.

  Otherwise I ended up with all my new (autoimported) files sitting in the 'Automatically imported' group and I have no time (nor even the possibility now with 200 files there) to go through them and tag or move to corresponding group.

  i.e. facilitate (or better automate) groupping and tagging of files.

• dmytro.apalkov commented  ·  April 27, 2009 17:59  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I would say that using grouping into folders by groups is quite useful. I would really like the feature. If a user considers that one paper falls under different groups, maybe it is better to use tags instead of groups in this case?

• Roberto Landaeta commented  ·  April 25, 2009 23:05  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  If you add a "group/tag" field to the folder saving options, that would mean duplicated files when you have the same document on more than one group (as I do). The present fields are the only ones which cannot lead to file duplication.

  For sharing articles with non-Mendeley users, I think that it would be better to add an "Export selected group(s) PDFs to X folder" feature.

• frouke commented  ·  April 23, 2009 02:13  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Being able to define the location of files for each of the groups in the database would be nice, as I am working on different subjects at the same time and would like to be able to take the files with me on an USB-stick. Now they are mixing up.

• Trafalgar commented  ·  April 02, 2009 15:35  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Maybe add another field for organizing folders by tags?

• Timmmm commented  ·  March 18, 2009 13:26  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I have to say that this is still a pretty flawed. It is fine if all your papers are about the same thing, but what if you have lots of papers about different topics? Not great to have them all mixed up. Perhaps we could add another metadata field that is just 'Folder'. Or maybe just add a 'Primary Group' drop-down for each paper.

• Valma commented  ·  February 11, 2009 08:29  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  As Ovoznyy and I seem to agree, Mendeley is needed to manage pdfs with several tags, but papers have to be managed externally in some situations. Now, that´s just where filenames come in handy (with a "name:xxxxx" desktop search in a folder) allowing some simple multiple criteria that folders don´t.
  Folders are nice if we create them after a selection is done or in very simple/fixed libraries.

• Adminpaul.foeckler (Admin, Mendeley) commented  ·  February 05, 2009 09:48  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Thanks for all your feedback. We have started working on this now and will try to do it in a way that everyone can configure the file management according to their needs.

• Alexander Vozny commented  ·  February 02, 2009 10:57  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  For sharing of list of files with specific attributes it would be nice to extend Mendeley the following way:
  - select needed files in Mendeley, use Open containing folder, the same files should be selected there (this is definitely possible at least for 1 file selected, see for example Copernic Desktop Search, although Mendeley currently does not implement this feature)

• Alexander Vozny commented  ·  February 02, 2009 10:41  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  The only reason people want folders is to have some manual control over the files in case something goes wrong with Mendeley.

  All year, author, journal, title, tags, etc. sorting and search is impossible to do via just filenames and is much better handled from within Mendeley.

• Timmmm commented  ·  January 27, 2009 06:25  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Not using subfolders has disadvantages. For example, what if I want top copy all the papers related to subject x onto a USB stick? Very hard if they aren't already in folders.

• jsapan commented  ·  January 19, 2009 17:13  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I second suggestions that iTunes-like library management would be welcome. In particular, I'd like to have the option for Mendeley to make a copy of the file and store it somewhere. Also, see the behavior of Papers.app for MacOS.

• Valma commented  ·  January 17, 2009 05:53  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Mendeley can automatically rename the file and insert the author name at the beginning so you can have all your files organized by author in 1 folder (windows sorts them alphabetically -click columns in Details view) being able to check and select 2nd authors, years and all at glance. You can also desktop-search for anything in that folder. iTunes system hides everything and you´ll miss files.

• rmfield commented  ·  January 16, 2009 07:59  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  can search for you) but more about sharing groups of documents with someone. For example, if someone was working on a project related to my work and I wanted to give him/her a set of files by a couple of authors that dominate the area of research, then I can quickly find and compress the folder rather than searching through an unorganized group of files looking for all of the documents I want.

• rmfield commented  ·  January 16, 2009 07:57  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  The rationale for creating folders for the documents was just to maintain an organized file system, regardless of how Mendeley works with the documents. I think a good example of library management is in iTunes. If you allow the program to keep your files organized, it puts them in folders by artist and has a sub-folder for each album. This is less about using a desktop search (since Mendeley