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You can try using Zotero instead. Mendeley is just not that good, and Zotero is open source and excellent.

This thread has convinced me to try to switch, but one thing that I love in Mendeley is the ability to watch a folder, and have any pdf in that folder automatically imported into my account, which then gets synced across devices. That, and the document detail lookup based on a manually input doi, which fixes author names etc. are the two sticking points. When I add a doi to a pdf in Zotero, there doesn't seem to be a way to look it up and import the relevant information to the file information in Zotero. Does anyone have any way around them?

https://www.zotero.org/support/getting_stuff_into_your_libra...

Seems like you can import by doi. Zotero allows auto import from df, but suggest that pdf metadata tends to be less accurate than importing from the web directly using the Firefox web extension

Yeah, that doesn't help the huge collection of papers I already have. And I often find that the web extensions previously broke, haven't tried it recently. Just being able to download the pdf and have it auto watch a folder/import it to me is an almost completely necessary feature.

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