bibcure
PaperTools
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bibcure
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Papis 0.13: A CLI document and bibliography manager
You don't normally need to enter metadata manually. You can import it using the publication's doi, arxiv etc. Then papis gives you an opportunity to review and update the metadata. The other functionality that papis provides is a quick search through titles, authors etc.
Of course much of that can be done with doi2bib [0], arxiv2bib [1], etc., which you can combine with the wonderful bibtool [2] to keep a clean bibtex file. That's what I use and the advantage of this over papis is that you can version control it.
That said papis has its use. It's less heavy than zotero, a bit less proprietary format (the info is stored in yaml files iirc) and it provides a layer over bibtex. If it had full text indexing and search I could see myself using it more.
[0] https://github.com/bibcure/bibcure
[1] https://nathangrigg.github.io/arxiv2bib/
[2] https://www.gerd-neugebauer.de/software/TeX/BibTool/en/
PaperTools
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Ask HN: How do you manage bibtex?
I've had similar struggles in the past. My solution at the time was a bib file quasi-managed by hand using JabRef. I would also periodically do some automatic updating using a script I wrote[0]. The script uses the NASA Astrophysics Data System to look for updates to papers (they cross-match arXiv preprints with the eventual publications) and updates the bibtex accordingly. It mostly worked, but there were some bugs (the last 10% takes 90% of the time).
I've since resorted to more hand-checking of references when I'm publishing a paper. Rreference management is tedious, but I've found that it is overall is a minor fraction of the time spent working on a paper. So it doesn't seem worth spending too much effort automating.
[0] https://github.com/privong/PaperTools/blob/main/bib_update.p...
What are some alternatives?
bibtex-autocomplete - Python package to autocomplete bibtex bibliographies
LaTeX-OCR - pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code.
cobib - Console Bibliography
bibtex2style - bibtex2style is a script that takes .bib file as an input and produces an .xlsx file with entries processed by biblatex with an according style (like `gost`). It also respects bold an italics fonts!
1filellm - Specify a github or local repo, github pull request, arXiv or Sci-Hub paper, Youtube transcript or documentation URL on the web and scrape into a text file and clipboard for easier LLM ingestion
betterbib - :green_book: Command-line tools for bibliographies.
papis - Powerful and highly extensible command-line based document and bibliography manager.
pdf2doi - A python library/command-line tool to extract the DOI or other identifiers of a scientific paper from a pdf file.
rebiber - A simple tool to update bib entries with their official information (e.g., DBLP or the ACL anthology).
pubs - Your bibliography on the command line