hes-dead-jim VS papis

​ The PR also reminded me of how switch cases finally got added to Python, I remember Googling how to do them in Python during OSD600 while working on link checker program, and since Python (at the time) didn't have them, I had to instead use if/else etc. This is kind of an ugly change if you ask me but not an entirely unwanted one.

Continuing my weekly trend (see: requirement) of blogging my progress in OSD600, this week's post will be about my progress setting up Telescope and modifying a small program I wrote to work with it.

I found this app called papis that seems like it would do what I want, but there doesn't appear to be a way to self host it.

I've recently published a first version of papis.nvim, a neovim companion plugin for the bibliography and reference manager papis. It's mainly meant for people who use neovim for academic and other prose writing. With it, you can search your bibliography, edit entries, open files and notes, format notes, and more! Check it out if you're already using papis, or if you're using mendeley or zotero and have been hoping for a nice cli + neovim alternative.

Use (python based) papis: https://github.com/papis/papis

papis is a command line document manager. It's not vim based, but can use vim as editor.

that is cool thanks! I think I'll batch add them to my papis library

A final word on the comparison with papis. The major difference is the library/database structure: papis used a deeply nested library structure. Paper information gets stored in multiple info.yaml files whereas coBib was designed to use a single, centralized and plain-text (version-controlled) database file (YAML format). PDF files can be linked via paths pointing to anywhere on your filesystem (or remote URLs) which was important to me because during my studies I kept papers for various courses separate from each other.