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Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
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Using this PDF viewer with Mendeley #42

Open A3EKV opened 3 years ago

A3EKV commented 3 years ago

Hello, I would like to thank you for this piece of software: very helpful! However, AFAIK, Most researchers are using some tools such as Mendeley to manage their documents/citations, etc.

Personally, I find it hard to transition from Mendeley to Sioyek and give up all the notes/highlight of each paper in my database of papers.

So, if Sioyek offers a solution to this problem, a lot of Mendeley will happily transition but It is still not clear how given that sioyek is not a library management software.

Isn't that possible? Thank you

ahrm commented 3 years ago

As far as I am aware Mendeley doesn't have a documented way to export annotations so I don't think that is possible.

Endle commented 3 years ago

I have a (a bit OT) suggest: As @ahrm mentioned in https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek/issues/29#issuecomment-915982417

We also added the ability to import/export your data into a json file by entering the :import and :export commands respectively.

How about adding documents for importing and exporting?

Thanks

s1291 commented 3 years ago

@ahrm Actually, Mendeley provides a REST API. You can easily import all your annotations. (see: https://api.mendeley.com/apidocs/docs). If I am not mistaken they have a Python and Javascript SDKs. I can provide some examples if you are interested.

ahrm commented 3 years ago

I have a (a bit OT) suggest: As @ahrm mentioned in #29 (comment)

We also added the ability to import/export your data into a json file by entering the :import and :export commands respectively.

How about adding documents for importing and exporting?

Thanks

Yes I should add documentation for import/export function but I don't think it will help with Mendeley because I think it uses a completely different file format.

Actually, Mendeley provides a REST API. You can easily import all your annotations. (see: https://api.mendeley.com/apidocs/docs). If I am not mistaken they have a Python and Javascript SDKs. I can provide some examples if you are interested.

Thanks I'll look into it.

ahrm commented 3 years ago

@ahrm Actually, Mendeley provides a REST API. You can easily import all your annotations. (see: https://api.mendeley.com/apidocs/docs). If I am not mistaken they have a Python and Javascript SDKs. I can provide some examples if you are interested.

This looks good. However, I don't think that I will include it as part of sioyek itself. But I think I can write a script to convert this to some file format that can be imported by sioyek.

s1291 commented 3 years ago

@ahrm The default format is JSON. Another interesting idea is the ability to integrate the highlights back (from Sioyek to Mendeley database) via POST requests. Notice that you need to perform OAuth 2.0 in order to have access to all API including annotations.

cardosorapha commented 3 years ago

Doesn't Mendeley actually exports all pdfs with annotations that you made in their reader? You would get the highlights but would lose the annotations I imagine.

ahrm commented 3 years ago

Doesn't Mendeley actually exports all pdfs with annotations that you made in their reader? You would get the highlights but would lose the annotations I imagine.

Yes but those highlights are embedded in the PDF and are different from sioyek highlights (for example you can not search them).

qsh-zh commented 2 years ago

By the way, does anyone know how to set the default pdf reviewer software for Mendeley when we open pdf externally?