Organizing Your Mendeley Library
You can use Folders to organize your documents in whatever collections make sense to you. Documents can be in more than one folder. Look for the Create Folder button at the top of Mendeley Desktop or Mendeley Web.
You can assign tags to each document in your Library and use these tags to help to locate and organize documents.
You can also use the star icon to mark favorite documents, and mark documents as read or unread using the green circle.
Folder Management
To organize your references, use folders.
- Click on Create Folder… to create a new folder, give it a name, and hit Return.
2. Drag references from the center column on to the Folder to add them.
File Management
Mendeley's file organizer can automatically rename your PDFs and file them in a clear folder structure, making it easier to find your files outside of Mendeley. Open Mendeley's File Organizer which can be found under Tools > Options.
In the tab, you can select:
- Organize my files: to make a copy of all documents added to Mendeley within one folder
- Sort files into subfolders: to create a folder structure based on selected document details
- Rename document files: to rename the often non-descriptive names of your PDFs to file names that are more meaningful, including the author, journal, year, and title
