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#1 2010-08-13 11:11:16
- olvar
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Documents managment: what do you use?
I've been trying to find a good document manager to organise the mess I have in articles, lecture notes, books, etc, mostly in pdf format. So I need a tool like Referencer (http://icculus.org/referencer/) or gPapers (http://gpapers.org/) that could help me with that. Lamentably, both of them have a large list of dependencies, like hal and some gnome stuff, I would like to avoid. So I wander if any of you knows about some other, less bloated, tool to do the job.
Maybe one of you have made a nice little script to retrieve BibTeX citations plus a database, or something along those lines.
So, what do you use to organise your bibliography?
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#3 2010-08-13 11:26:11
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Re: Documents managment: what do you use?
I use zotero, since research is mainly done online (from my library website) anyway nowadays.
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#4 2010-08-13 12:16:25
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Re: Documents managment: what do you use?
I've tried both, zotero and jabref, but either I didn't look well enough or they missed a key feature for me, that is to be able to scan a directory with pdf and create from that, a database. For example, Referencer looked for DOI, arxiv and some other reference codes inside the pdfs to then get the information about author, publisher, etc from internet. So the work I had to put in creating the database was minimal.
Is that possible in those apps? or do you know some other way to automate it?
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#5 2010-08-13 12:32:45
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Re: Documents managment: what do you use?
A while ago I looked around for academic pdf organizers for KDE. There is Kbibtex which is mature and very functional in my opinion. It still uses Qt 3 but it is being ported to Qt 4. For KDE4, there is the general collection manager Tellico. It is not just for academic articles, but a bibliography collection is certainly an option and it has reasonably good features for academics like playing nicely with bibtex and searching Library of Congress or Google scholar. Also, Tellico is in active development and its developer is very responsive to requests.
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#6 2010-08-13 13:33:10
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Re: Documents managment: what do you use?
+1 for zotero, ideal for cataloging resources found online, plus it also has a lyx plugin. but you should also look at mendeley, which has the feature you are looking for, i.e. cataloging offline resources (pdf files).
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#7 2010-08-13 13:50:57
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Re: Documents managment: what do you use?
vote for jabref: the bibtex bibliography is very suitable, especially if you wanna publish and need to cite papers, books, etc.
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#8 2010-08-13 14:47:42
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Re: Documents managment: what do you use?
What a pitty Papers is only for Mac 
Since you mostly have PDF files take a look at Mendely (AUR) .
It also has a bib export/import but I never used this feature because I edit my bib file by hand ^^
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#9 2010-08-13 16:34:58
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Re: Documents managment: what do you use?
The only documents I read are pdf's, so I use either mupdf or zathura for that.
EDIT: Wouldn't this fit better in Off-Topic, as this is in the section for requesting help? 
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#10 2010-08-13 17:16:15
- olvar
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Re: Documents managment: what do you use?
The only documents I read are pdf's, so I use either mupdf or zathura for that.
EDIT: Wouldn't this fit better in Off-Topic, as this is in the section for requesting help?
I am asking for help. Despite the title, this wasn't meant to be a poll, and for sure not about document readers, but I get where the confusion arises.
So far it seems mendeley is the closest thing to what I'm looking for, it looks fairly complete. But I dislike 2 things, it being closed source and the need to create an account to use the full featured program. I think I will use it though, at least while I find a replacement or make some time to write a script to retrieve the bibtex citations from internet.
I won't mark the thread as solved in case someone else knows about a good way to manage bibliographic material.
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#11 2010-08-13 17:18:00
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Re: Documents managment: what do you use?
itsbrad212 wrote:The only documents I read are pdf's, so I use either mupdf or zathura for that.
EDIT: Wouldn't this fit better in Off-Topic, as this is in the section for requesting help?I am asking for help. Despite the title, this wasn't meant to be a poll, and for sure not about document readers, but I get where the confusion arises.
My apologies. I neglected to actually read the first post 
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