Console Bibliography
Project description
CoBib
Welcome to CoBib - the Console Bibliography! I have started this project when I was looking into alternatives to popular reference managers such as Mendeley, which has more features than I use on a regular basis and does not allow me to work from the command line which is where I spent most of the time that I spent on the computer.
Hence, I have decided to make it my own task of implementing a simple, yet fast, reference manager. CoBib is written in Python and uses a YAML file to store its bibliography in a plain text format.
Currently CoBib provides the following functionality:
- adding new references from a bibtex source or via DOI or arXiv ID
- querying the database by in- and exclusion filters
- printing detailed information about a reference ID
- exporting a list of references to the biblatex format
- opening associated files using an external program
- manually editing entries using the $EDITOR
Future features may include:
- previewing abstracts directly inside the terminal
- extracting abstracts from PDFs
Installation
git clone https://gitlab.com/mrossinek/cobib
cd cobib
python setup.py install
This will install the cobib
package. By default, cobib
will store your
database at ~/.local/share/cobib/literature.yaml
To see how you can change this, see Config.
Usage
Start by initializing the database with
cobib init
Afterwards you can add
, list
, edit
, remove
, show
, open
and export
database entries. Type cobib --help
for further information or
cobib <subcommand> --help
for more detailed information on the specific
subcommands.
Config
You can overwrite the default configuration by placing a config.ini
file at
~/.config/cobib/
. Take a look at the default config to see what possible
configuration options exist.
You may also specify a different config file at runtime by using the -c
or
--config
command line argument.
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