Comments on: How-to series: How to search your notes (and other fields) [part 10 of 12] http://blog.mendeley.com/tipstricks/how-to-series-how-to-search-your-notes-and-other-fields-part-10-of-12/ Organize, share, discover academic knowledge Mon, 13 May 2013 04:47:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ashley http://blog.mendeley.com/tipstricks/how-to-series-how-to-search-your-notes-and-other-fields-part-10-of-12/comment-page-1/#comment-713456 Ashley Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:53:13 +0000 http://blog.mendeley.com/?p=43960#comment-713456 Thanks for the tutorial Ricardo have just put it to good use!

]]> By: Rob http://blog.mendeley.com/tipstricks/how-to-series-how-to-search-your-notes-and-other-fields-part-10-of-12/comment-page-1/#comment-694830 Rob Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:14:08 +0000 http://blog.mendeley.com/?p=43960#comment-694830 > Also year:201* does not work for me.

That will only work in the upcoming release.

Hello Gaston,

That example query should work in the upcoming release. I believe there is a bug in the mixing of full text and field-specific terms in the stable release.

]]> By: Gaston http://blog.mendeley.com/tipstricks/how-to-series-how-to-search-your-notes-and-other-fields-part-10-of-12/comment-page-1/#comment-694549 Gaston Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:41:34 +0000 http://blog.mendeley.com/?p=43960#comment-694549 Rob,

Could you please let us know how to search documents authored by Smith (Author:smith) AND that contains the word ‘cancer’ in the full text? Tried: ‘cancer Author:smith’ but does not seem to work.

Besides, I regret that Mendeley Ltd. does not invest more means in developping their desktop application. Using Mendeley for more than 2 years, I have to admit that I have not really seen new major functionalities. That’s a bit sad when I see the recent progresses made by other developpers of reference management softwares.

]]> By: osm http://blog.mendeley.com/tipstricks/how-to-series-how-to-search-your-notes-and-other-fields-part-10-of-12/comment-page-1/#comment-694412 osm Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:36:06 +0000 http://blog.mendeley.com/?p=43960#comment-694412 Rob,

Thanks for reply. Good to hear there is some support for boolean operators and you will be improving their handling and consistency in next release. When you do, please clearly document the syntax. I had been trying author:smith -author:doe instead of author:smith,-doe because there does not seem to be any documentation that explains the expected syntax.

Also year:201* does not work for me.

]]> By: Rob http://blog.mendeley.com/tipstricks/how-to-series-how-to-search-your-notes-and-other-fields-part-10-of-12/comment-page-1/#comment-694407 Rob Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:48:08 +0000 http://blog.mendeley.com/?p=43960#comment-694407 Hello David,

We do pay attention to feedback.mendeley.com, it is for suggestions and feature requests though. What the support folks meant is that technical support requests (eg. something is not working) should go to support.mendeley.com. Please continue to use feedback.mendeley.com to vote or comment on things that are important to you.

Hello osm,

There will be some improvements to search in the next release, mostly focused on performance/robustness and consistency of how searches are handled in metadata, full text and the citation editor. Regarding the two examples you gave:

> author:smith year:2010-2012 (i.e. year range search)

We haven’t implemented year range search yet, but prefix search handling has been made more consistent, so ‘author:smith year:201*’ would match papers from 2010 and later. The ‘*’ is not required if the term is the last in the query and there are no trailing spaces or quotes.

> author:smith NOT author:doe (i.e. boolean operator support)

There is some support for boolean operators. The syntax though is: ‘author:smith author:-doe’ or ‘author:smith,-doe’. We’ve fixed a number of bugs in the handling of boolean operators for the next release.

]]> By: David http://blog.mendeley.com/tipstricks/how-to-series-how-to-search-your-notes-and-other-fields-part-10-of-12/comment-page-1/#comment-694405 David Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:19:10 +0000 http://blog.mendeley.com/?p=43960#comment-694405 osm: Mendeley support have informed me that they no longer pay attention to feedback.mendeley.com.

It is disappointing that Mendeley has abandoned their own feedback site without informing their customers.

]]> By: osm http://blog.mendeley.com/tipstricks/how-to-series-how-to-search-your-notes-and-other-fields-part-10-of-12/comment-page-1/#comment-694351 osm Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:58:39 +0000 http://blog.mendeley.com/?p=43960#comment-694351 Whilst it is handy to search notes, regrettably I would have to argue that overall Mendeley’s search functionality is relatively weak.

This has been discussed on your feedback forum for around 3 years: http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/141411-advanced-search-boolean-operators-search-result

Examples of functionality that I would expect in reference management software, but are unavailable in Mendeley are:

author:smith year:2010-2012 (i.e. year range search)
author:smith NOT author:doe (i.e. boolean operator support)

Also there should be more search fields (e.g. surname, title/abstract) and it should be possible to sort the search results and save searches as smart folders.

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