Thoughts on Mendeley
The presentation on Mendeley was well executed and I feel that the presentation, as a whole, leaned towards the good aspects of the app. Firstly, they emphasized mainly on how Mendeley facilitates online research collaboration between peers. They juxtaposed Mendeley and other collaborative apps such as Google Drive, bringing across how Mendeley takes things a step higher to provide better functionalities to the user in terms of collaboration. I would say that this is the main crux (or selling point) of the app, and they did a good job in convincing us on how Mendeley is clearly superior on this front. Secondly, they talked about how there is a lack of real time syncing for the app, as compared to other traditional cloud services which does this for us normally. It was emphasized that real time syncing has become a default expectation for users nowadays and hence should not be missing from its implementation. I feel that this is quite significant, but not mainly because it has becom