Feature request: A Mendeley import function which works
Hi,
I don't know if Zotero devs monitor this forum, but just wanted to say that the lack of a proper Mendeley import function is the only thing preventing me from making the switch to Zotero. I'd like to suggest that this feature is added to Zotero.
A basic import pathway exists (exporting in RIS format from Mendeley then importing that into Zotero) but this does not retain the folder structure from Mendeley, which for me is a show-stopper. The whole point of me using Mendeley or Zotero is to help me categorise the hundreds of references I have curated. The only alternatives I can find are some 3rd party scripts (https://github.com/rdiaz02/Adios_Mendeley, https://github.com/flinz/mendeley2zotero) however I'd rather not let some random haven't-been-updated-in-years scripts mess around with my carefully curated collections.
Any advice?
I don't know if Zotero devs monitor this forum, but just wanted to say that the lack of a proper Mendeley import function is the only thing preventing me from making the switch to Zotero. I'd like to suggest that this feature is added to Zotero.
A basic import pathway exists (exporting in RIS format from Mendeley then importing that into Zotero) but this does not retain the folder structure from Mendeley, which for me is a show-stopper. The whole point of me using Mendeley or Zotero is to help me categorise the hundreds of references I have curated. The only alternatives I can find are some 3rd party scripts (https://github.com/rdiaz02/Adios_Mendeley, https://github.com/flinz/mendeley2zotero) however I'd rather not let some random haven't-been-updated-in-years scripts mess around with my carefully curated collections.
Any advice?
FWIW, the 3rd party scripts wouldn't touch your Mendeley database directly but rather create a copy for import to Zotero, so you could just test it out
It's not perfect but it would save you from fiddling with the Zotero DB directly (as Mendeley2Zotero does) and it can import collections, and as the format is JSON a) it's pretty easy to generate, b) no need to go through bibtex (export to bibtex and then import to Zotero is not lossless).