PDFs with annotations (notes and highlighting) in Linux are very difficult. Most PDF readers don't see them (acroread does), and many can't print them properly. So I can export my PDFs just fine, but can't actually print them out or share them with my Linux-using collegues. I'd love it if you could have a native way of making the annotations appear in the margins of the PDF document or in some way visible on a printed page, that doesn't rely on the resident PDF annotations. Maybe somthing to print directly or export to PostScript?

maybe people can but in here some missing categories. i am sure there are some ontologies around for academic fields, maybe check a library catalogue:

biological science -> neuroscience

interdisciplinar fields
neuroinformatics
computational neuroscience
neuromorphic engineering

There should be provision to use the subscript and superscript letter in the title and Abstract tab. Otherwise it creats a great problem while creating the Bibliography. Endnotes and Ref-works have this option. however they dont have the option to use symbol in the title of the paper. So it would be bonus if symbole can be used in addition to the subscipt and superscript letter in those tabs.

Dear Sir,

iAnnotate is a great app for iPad used for annotationj/highlighting/commenting ... etc. of PDF files. It would be great if you can link your iPad app with iAnnotate.

Export to iAnnotate and import back to Mendeley would be a good start. Of course, the capacity to recognize annotations from this app is essential. Almost all annotations are recognized by standard Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Thanks.

Best
Marek

It would be a nice feature to be able to re-organize different tabs when you are reading several pdfs by dragging the tab to the desired position, it would be also cool to add the options close other and close all tabs tabs as similar as mozilla.

Absolutely needed feature. I personally stay on Endnote because there are days and days work... Maybe Mendeley is good for graduate students who start from scratch, but try to attract faculty and they will bring to you students...

When i copy a file from mylibrary to shared collections, I lost the annotations, including highlights. Likewise, when the files on the desktop is sync with the web, the annotations is not there too.

Currently, Mendeley Desktop seems to only allow for exporting, e.g., BibTeX records, to files. This is inconvenient when one is working on a research paper with an attached BibTeX file, where entries need to be pasted. It would be very good to be able to simply export a BibTeX record to the clipboard and paste it in the BibTeX file by just typing Ctrl-V (or any of the equivalent keystrokes).

I really like the current BibTeX syncing feature. However, supporting the more modern biblatex package (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html) which supports new features such as Unicode could be very useful.

The file syntax is very similar to BibTex but the two do have some differences. I ask that there be an option to 'export' to a biblatex file as opposed to a BibTex file.

Thank you

Please add the possibility for choosing which fields (abstract, author, year, url, mendeley-tags, etc.) are included when exporting a BibTeX file.
This will make the BibTeX file less cluttered and only include the fields of your interest.

Allow users to export their PDFs (with annotations or without) in bulk. Selecting them in the classical view and then export all selected files to a specified folder. This would make distributing texts to colleagues or students a lot easier...

I am using the word plugin under windows. I would like to use hyperlinks in word so that a hyperlink from the citation in the text to takes me to the actual citation in the bibliography.

Example :

Text:
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This is a good day[1]
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Bibliography
[1] M.N. MyName, “This is a good day”, 2010
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I believe this functionality is essential when wriring lengthy reports and is also great when it appears in journals

At the moment, automatic metadata extraction only works on PDF files. Add support for Word documents, .txt, .html and other files.

I'd like to have the possibility to have an auto-sync option, that is, every change is made it syncs automatically in the web, so like Dropbox or other services. I use two computers, desktop and laptop, and sometimes I change my work place and forget to sync manually.

When importing a finle to your library with the web importer, it would be great if Mendeley fetched the PDF that was associated with it as well, if it is available. Specifically, I'm think if ADS, where there is a link to download the pdf. I could download the PDF and then add it to my library, but then the web importer is useless. If I use the web importer, and then download the file and add it later, I have a duplicate entry. Anyway to download the PDF through the web importer?

I'm not a scolar but I use Mendeley to manage a lot of standards and is curious how to catalog these. They have one thing in common, the number, but they can't be regarded as a bill or legislation. The best I've come up with yet is to use Generic and store the number in the Number field, but is there a better/smarter/more correct way to do this?

Also, when referencing a standard I have not found any reference system that displays the number which I feel is required to uniquely identify the standard in question.

Any comments or suggestions?

I have a printout copy of many of my PDF files. Each printout is labeled with a unique number on the top right corner and stored in a ordered way.
Whenever I look for a paper:
1. I open my digital library organizer
2. I search the paper and find what is the number associated to it
3. Go to my paper library and pick paper number N.

I wish this could be done with Mendeley (sounds pretty easy to implement)