Tagging upon import

[Arjun_Raj]

I love the ability to quickly import papers with the PaperPile extension. What would make it even more awesome would be some way to tag/file the paper right upon import. Right now, I import and then open up PaperPile to file the paper, which adds a bit of effort.

[stefan]

That is a frequently requested feature and has an undisputed place on our roadmap. It’s not on the very top though so I can’t give an estimate though when it will become available.

Please see also the discussion here:

Add tags and folders when importing from Chrome extension

It would be nice to be able to directly assign items to a folder and add tags when adding references from the Chrome extension. Both Evernote and Pocket allow one to do this from their chrome extensions. See here for a screenshot of how it works in Pocket: http://getpocket.com/blog/2012/04/new-in-pocket-bookmarklet-tags-chrome-extension-updates-and-support-for-ie9/

Assigning labels or creating notes while adding a paper to the paperpile library

While paperpile provides a nice interface to add notes / labels in the main app window, it is necessary to go to the paperpile app window to do it. Often when we are reading a paper I like to add labels and add a comment to it after going to the paperpile button. Often I keep a separate paperpile window open side by side to do this as soon as the paper is added to paperpile but that takes up some valuable screen real estate. It would be nice if the add to paperpile button offers a facility to la…