It takes a lot of wonky setting up to get it to kind of work, which just shouldn't be the case The way that it still doesn't play nice with cloud services (syncing the directory and its just a matter of time until you get database corruption. Zotero has improved a lot, though sadly it still has a way to go on the user experience of Mendeley.

So again, as a researcher, I emplore you to drop Mendeley completely, as I have done. You can export Bibliographies, including notes AND files. You can use a PDF reader with annotations to open and save the PDF and Zotero will keep those annotations. It does NOT allow you to fully access your own work! Sharing results, research and literature is crucial. I had to re-aquire all PDFs and go through all annotations by hand.ĮLSEVIER IS SIMPLY ANTI SCIENCE. I was completely f'ed - deadline approaching. I had everything in Mendeley, weeks of work. After some update, without me noticing it, it was no longer possible to export folders of PDFs or PDFs in general! I was now in need to send my categorized PDFs to a central repository for my co-authors to evaluate and add to. I had used Mendeley for years to annotate and categorize literature. What happened to me some time ago was these updates occured during a high-stress phase with a short deadline until conference submissions (if you are a researcher, you know what I mean). The updates that took away features were silent. This is obviously the case since Elsevier does not want you to trade research papers, whether you have lawfull access or not. For example, sending a folder of annotated PDFs to a co-author during a literature review is impossible. Mendeley used to be quite a good program, but recently you can not export annotated PDFs meaningfully.

Zotero has improved a lot, while Mendeley has repeatedly regressed.

Mendeley crashing