My PDFs are currently organized into one "Readings" folder which is synced on my Dropbox account, with a single layer of folders below that for topics (e.g., "Innovation", "China", "Expertise", etc). I'm hoping to manage my PDFs in a way that (a) preserves this folder structure on my machine and (b) helps make documents highly searchable in Mendeley because of it.
A workaround is to have Mendeley watch the "Readings" folder, but not organize files. This at least preserves my topic-based organization. But, this doesn't help with part (b).
To do part (b), I could imagine several possible solutions. Mendeley could automatically apply the folder name as a tag to the file. Or, Mendeley could automatically place the file into a corresponding group or folder. Or, I could create a parallel file structure on Mendeley, and assign each Mendeley folder to watch a particular folder on my machine.
Are any of these possibilities? I've seen posts to similar questions back to at least 2012 on the Mendeley support boards - has /any/ progress been made? While (a) is functional, I can't really use Mendeley (especially not collaborating by sharing folders of particular topics) until there's a way of doing (b)...
Thanks for your help!
Eric
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