A button to show an attached PDF in the file explorer - Endnote’s PDF folder structure is impossible to navigate so I need an easy way to find an attached file. At the moment I have to open the attachment and choose save as and look at the file path in the save dialog box.
Related to 1. - the ability to select multiple references and choose to email the attachment for all references in 1 email.
I regularly need to send multiple PDFs to colleagues which is why I would love these features. Really feature 1 is not as important - i wouldn’t need to be able to see the file in Windows Explorer if I could email multiple files straigth from Endnote.
I never thought of sending a compressed library. It’s an interesting approach, but if you are having problems maybe not a great solution. For me I usually only send a few papers by email so it’s not ideal to ask the person to extract and open the library.
The other product suggestion that might help is the ability to share just a group or group set within my library rather than the whole library - so I could just copy across references i want the other person to see. I know this is possible with Endnote Web but I mainly use Endnote desktop. I dont’ really want to share my whole library and I’m not keep on making a second shared library because I would have to manage both libraries and because the record numbers would be different if I decided add references from the second library to a document.
But ultimately it is often better just to send the PDFs, often the people I share with don’t use Endnote. Some of the people I work with that do use it still just use it for reference management and manage their papers as a folder of PDFs.