Best software for organizing journal articles?
- Thread starter Dason
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I've used Mendeley for 5 years after switching from Word's built in reference manager. The new online Mendeley, I find, is slow and not as user friendly as the desktop Mendeley so I stick with Mendeley desktop and the Mendeley Google Chrome plugin. For my use Mendeley is no.1 for the amount of articles I get through and manage and ease of recall when writing copy and ref lists. The newer Google Chrome plugin doesn't find pdfs and authors as often as earlier versions did.
Yes. I agree about Mendeley.
I have been using it on a daily basis, to organize my references and to read articles and books (using the in-built highlight and annotation function). But there is something a little annoying: for two reasons (to quick add a citation and to read the PDF of an article/book), I used to import PDFs into Mendeley. But this ended up creating duplicates on my hard drive (1 copy of the PDF that one imports, and 1 copy of it that is first uploaded to my Mendely account and then downloaded into a "downloaded" folder which sits inside the program's directory).
Other than that, everything fine.
I have been using it on a daily basis, to organize my references and to read articles and books (using the in-built highlight and annotation function). But there is something a little annoying: for two reasons (to quick add a citation and to read the PDF of an article/book), I used to import PDFs into Mendeley. But this ended up creating duplicates on my hard drive (1 copy of the PDF that one imports, and 1 copy of it that is first uploaded to my Mendely account and then downloaded into a "downloaded" folder which sits inside the program's directory).
Other than that, everything fine.
