Welcome to our forum, @dalind, and thanks for taking the time to illustrate and share your feedback. Some of the updates we are working on now (check out our roadmap) will indirectly affect library display. In the past we’ve found that users are pleased with the current display so we have not prioritized changing it. However, the matter is on our radar since we do intend to offer alternative list layouts/customization options further down the road. I’ve added your +1 to the topic on our internal tracker.
I can see that the feature might only be useful to a subset of users. On the other hand, that might be a nice visual differentiator from the competition. Anyhow, thanks for considering!
Hi, I’m just trying out Paperpile. Has there been any progress with this request? I have a lot of articles and textbooks and much prefer to visually identify them via thumbnails. I use my iPad primarily. Currently there don’t even seem to be any view options - just the list view. Could we please have a thumbnails view, perhaps with some info below the thumbnail such as author and publication date? You can’t even see a thumbnail of the paper or textbook when you go into the item info!
Welcome to our community, @Dan_Hackley, and thanks for giving Paperpile a try! A thumbnail/cover-image view would definitely make scanning a big library on an iPad easier. Right now, the iOS app and web app only support the list view you’re seeing, and switching to a thumbnail layout isn’t on the immediate roadmap. That said, requests like yours help us gauge demand, so I’ve logged your vote and the specific “thumbnail + author + publication date” idea in our internal feature tracker. If plans change, we’ll update this thread.
I want to echo this request for a thumbnail or similar visualization. Every six months or so I think about leaving Paperpile or contemplate the work involved in creating a competitor because the text-only view is a brutal way to maintain a library and affects scholarship. I miss Papers from 20 years ago. If Paperpile’s highest goal is just to be a citation manager, it’s obviously fine, but a good reference manager also acts as a browsable library. Graphics are huge.
Very well put s_c. I also miss Papers. It had an excellent iPad app with a thumbnail view and some info text below each thumbnail. I really hope thumbnails can be added.
