Rectoly for Mendeley

Read, think, write — without leaving the app From reading a paper to shaping your argument and drafting the text. This is the biggest update Rectoly for Mendeley has had. Research themes • Send a passage to a theme, with its source. Keep the theme beside the paper, or open it as a sheet. • Drag a card from anywhere on it to rearrange; grab a heading and the whole section moves. Every card leads back to the paper and page it came from. • Export as Markdown or Word (.docx). Across papers • The library column has a new Across papers tab: search the annotations, the text and your handwriting in your whole library at once. • Japanese now matches on part of a word, too. Figures, tables and a comparison • Save a figure as PNG and a table as CSV — one paper at a time, or your whole library in one go. • Compare many papers' abstracts, methods, results and conclusions in one table, one row per paper. Your draft beside the paper • Open the document you are writing (.docx, .doc, .odt, .rtf, Markdown, plain text — password-protected ones too) in a column next to the paper. It re-reads the file every time you save. WebDAV • Open PDFs kept on a WebDAV server such as Nextcloud or your university's storage — and add them to Mendeley from there. Tools for reading • Read Aloud: hear the text in Reading Mode, in the system voice or the VoiceOver one. • Choose the typeface and line spacing in Reading Mode. • Filter annotations by colour and by kind. Citing and notes • Copy with the page number, and copy BibTeX or a citation key. • Touch a citation in the text to see what it refers to, with buttons to copy the reference and open the DOI. • Collect the notes on your highlights into note folders. A layout for how you use this device • On a tablet or phone, reading and thinking lead: search, Reading Mode, highlight, pen, sticky note and colour head the tool rail. On a Mac, the research theme column opens beside the paper and the writing tools come first. • Only the default places of the tools change; what you have arranged yourself stays. The switch is in Settings › General, and “Use this device’s layout” applies the defaults again. Also • Open PDFs on this device without signing in, including by drag and drop. • Choose how two panes and Reading Mode are arranged (automatic, side by side, one above the other) and drag the divider. • Remap keyboard shortcuts, use the side buttons on a mouse, and right-click menus. • Help now lives in the app: FAQ, what each icon means, hints the first time you meet a screen, and this What's New. • Rectoly runs on Apple silicon Macs (macOS 14.6 and later). Fixes and improvements • Fixed a PDF whose filename is in Japanese or another non-Latin script being added with an empty title. • The whole sample library is now free to try: highlights, sticky notes, handwriting, Reading Mode and two panes, before you buy. • Error reports and usage statistics no longer carry filenames, paper titles, URLs or email addresses. • If the diagnostics report can't be sent by mail, you can now send it from the share sheet.