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by gillesjacobs 826 days ago
Mendeley beat Zotero for me with automatic pdf renaming, organising and its highlight and note taking tools in the reader.

The Elsevier account integration is disgusting though, and I hate the idea of using all Elsevier product.
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malshe 826 days ago
I use zotfile extension to automatically rename files in Zotero
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felipefar 826 days ago
What do you like about organization in Mendeley?
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gillesjacobs 824 days ago
Ever since the big UX app overhaul there is not much to like regarding functionality. They removed the pdf renaming and some other major automated file mgmt features from mendeley.

Other than that the commenting and note reader UI was pretty good. And overall UI/UX felt more modern than Zotero, also free (as in beer) cloud backup.

Today I had to do some literature review, and I reinstalled Zotero 7beta because I am not happy with the removed functionality from Mendeley.

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