Mendeley Desktop

July 7, 2009 by Colby
Filed under: Desktop Interface, Research Repositories, Web Interface 

Mendeley released a new version (0.9) yesterday which includes many new impressive features, including a slick highlighting and annotation system in the desktop software.  Check out the complete list here: http://www.mendeley.com/blog/academic-features/mendeley-desktop-v0-9-0-released/

Though organization is still rather difficult without a folder hierarchy or ability to subclassify/reorder papers, it is very intuitive at extracting information and organizing it to easily form references.  Being used to using google docs by manually uploading, titleing, and tagging documents, a very slow process, this is an incredible time saver.  Mendeley can be set to watch local folders, so when PDFs are downloaded, it automatically is added to the database and information extracted.  I had my whole library of what took me hours of organizing in google docs uploaded and fully searchable in Mendeley in minutes.  And Mendeley has a synchronized web interface as well, so I can access everything wherever I need it.

Mendeley is still a new company started a little over a year ago, but is rapidly adding features and becoming  a top organizational and bibliographical choice.

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