Papis

Description

Papis is a powerful and highly extensible command-line based document and bibliography manager.

Learn more:

• Take a look at the documentation!
• The folks at OSTechNix have dedicated us a review, you may also check it out here.
• A review in Spanish is also available at ubunlog.

Main features

• Synchronizing of documents: put your documents in some folder and synchronize it using the tools you love: git, dropbox, rsync, OwnCloud, Google Drive ... whatever.
• Share libraries with colleagues without forcing them to open an account, nowhere, never.
• Download directly paper information from DOI number via Crossref.
• (optional) scihub support, use the example papis script examples/scripts/papis-scihub to download papers from scihub and add them to your library with all the relevant information, in a matter of seconds, also you can check the documentation here.
• Import from Zotero and other managers using papis-zotero <https://github.com/papis/papis-zotero>_.
• Create custom scripts to help you achieve great tasks easily (doc).
• Export documents into many formats (bibtex, yaml..)
• Command-line granularity, all the power of a library at the tip of your fingers.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome! Take a look at the files CONTRIBUTING.md for general rules, ROADMAP.md for possible contribution topics and HACKING.md for additional code-related information.

Super quick start

Install papis with pip3

sudo pip3 install papis

Let us download a couple of documents

wget http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/pdf/libc.pdf
wget http://www.ams.org/notices/201304/rnoti-p434.pdf

Now add them to the (defaultly created) library, you can set any keyword you like already when adding documents, for instance you can set the year --set year 2018 or tags for organizing --set tags programming,

papis add libc.pdf --set author "Sandra Loosemore" --set title "GNU C reference manual" --set year 2018 --set tags programming --confirm
# Get paper information automatically via de DOI
papis add --from-doi 10.1090/noti963 --set tags programming rnoti-p434.pdf

Now open one for example, or edit them

papis open
papis edit

Or edit them and export them to bibtex

papis export --all --bibtex > mylib.bib

find help messages in all commands:

papis -h
papis add -h

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!

Authors

See the AUTHORS list for a list of authored commits.

Related software

Here is a list of similar software:

• Mendeley Proprietary.
• Zotero FOSS
• Xapers.