For a long time Mendeley didn't have the possibility to organize articles in folders (collections). Eventually this was implemented, but it is still highly disfunctional and problematic.
Collections should work exactly as Labels in GMail!
Some examples of problems with the way Collections are presently working:
1. Cannot search by collection name
2. If you remove an item from a subcollection it is removed from the parent collection altogether! How genius! If you have the same article in two subcollections of a given collection and you remove it from one of the subcollections it is removed from the other subcollection too!
3. Articles that belong to a subcollection of a collection show up in the parent collection too.
These three features alone make organizing articles in Mendeley a nightmare! GMail Labels are exactly how Collections in Mendeley should work!
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