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  1. Scale annotations to the length of the note

    For the annotations, it would be cleaner and more compact if the size of the post-it note was only slightly larger than the text. It would eliminate some scrolling in the notes pane and tidy things up a little.

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  2. application note

    Minor issue, but can you add "Application Note" to the types of document that Mendely uses as a template. Very similar to a journal article, but only the following fields are required, Company Name, Title of the Application Note, Authors, Abstract, URL, Keywords. These are very common in my field when company produce working protocols for their products.

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  3. split pdf

    I would find it very useful if I could split the pdf viewer into 2 so that I could view 2 places of the same file. A common use would be to keep an eye on the reference section of a paper while reading the file. (This feature is implemented in Skim for OS X as: View -> Show Split PDF)

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  4. Images (desktop)

    Images are not displayed in Linux version (Ubuntu 10.04)

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  5. that you correctly check if articles were truly published before you enter them into your database

    Dear Mendeley,

    I love your user friendly software. However, I already several times encountered a serious problems when I found an article that was actually never published:

    i.e. 'An Analytical Solution to Estimate the Error Structure of a Global Soil Moisture Dataset' from Parinussa.. that was actually submitted under this name but published under

    'Error estimates for near-real-time satellite soil moisture as derived from the land parameter retrieval model'.. article name thas is not to be find in your database.

    These discrepancies may lead to serious mistakes in journal papers!

    thanks for considering my suggestion and for a possible explanation…

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  6. Fix tags bug

    Just a little thing but annoying: as you start to type in your tag, Mendeley pulls up a list of your existing tags. But when you use arrow keys to select your existing tag from the list, it saves the text in the box (partial search text) instead of the tag.

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  7. open office integration

    I had the same problem that many of us with the integration in Open-Office: when I tried to insert a reference, I got an error message. I solved it yesterday: you have to insert with the option "Insert button citation", do not do it with the command "Add citation", cause it sends the error message. If you don't have enabled this button, go in OpenOffice to Tools, then Costumize and add the command "Insert button citation" to your bar. Hope you can solve it too.

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  8. Plui-in MS Word not working

    I install the plug-in MS Word but its not working

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  9. fix documents with PDF attachments

    when I drag a document with a PDF attachment over to a group, my mendeley always crashes! I have to remove the PDF to get this to work.

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  10. Import from EASI digital library

    Allow to import a list of references from AGUs EASI digital library. Currently non of the selectable EASI output formats (XML,Refer (Endnote)) is working with Mendeley desktop import.

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  11. Add Mendeley to Ubuntu Software Center

    Mendeley should be available directly through the Ubuntu Software Center. This is easy to do. See http://developer.ubuntu.com/publish/
    This will make installation and updating easier, and make Mendeley more discoverable to new users.

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  12. Reset the scrollbar upon search

    perform a search and scroll down to look at more results. When I search for something else, the scrollbar should be reset to the top (showing the top results), not left at its previous position.

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  13. allow URLs to be dragged and dropped to Mendeley Desktop

    A URL dropped to free space in the documents list within Mendeley Desktop, or to a point between two listed documents, should create a web page type document in Mendeley.

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  14. Preserve view format when searching

    Currently (0.9.6.1), searching switches to an ad hoc table with a column called "Search Results". This view is suboptimal because one cannot sort by title, author, or other criteria.

    Instead: Provide 3 canned views: "Table", "Citations", and "Summary" (or some such). The first two are already implemented. Summary is the current Search Result view. When a user searches, s/he may switch views as desired.

    Bonus points: Config option "View for search results:" (pulldown menu, including "no change" option)

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  15. Add MR as catalog IDs?

    The mathscinet: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/index.html is a good place for me to find articles and the RIVIEWS of the experts, what's more they provided the bibtex format export supporting, and aways have more and precise infomation than I gets from google (and then import it into medeley), so I am wondering if you can add the MRnumbers as a catalog IDs? Although they provided the DOI.

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  16. Problems with the organization of files

    hi all,

    I'm having some problems with organizing my virtual library.

    I have about 12 thousand references in pdf, however after Medeley drive to the folder where the files, it recognizes only 4 thousand to 12, and I can not in any way to get him open and recognize the other 8 thousand what do I do?

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