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Xapers



Hey, folks.  I wanted to let people know about a program that I've been
working on that may be of interest to people on this list.

It's a personal paper management/indexing system called Xapers, geared
somewhat specifically towards academic journal articles.  For those
familiar with Papers [0], it's like that but for the command line set.

Give it a pdf and a source identifier (like DOI url), and it downloads
bibtex from the online library, stores the pdf and bibtex in a local
document store, and indexes them both into a Xapian search engine.
Existing bibtex databases can be imported, including import of files
specified in Jabref/Mendeley format.  Full document text and bibtex can
be searched.  Documents can be arbitrarily tagged.  Documents and bibtex
can be exported from arbitrary searches.  It's a python library
underneath, but there a cli and a simple curses ui that can display
search results, tag documents, and retrieve files.

More Info here:

http://finestructure.net/xapers

and source is available here:

git://finestructure.net/xapers

It's certainly not perfect, but it's been working fairly well for me for
a while.  The just-released version is 0.5.  I intend to ITP the package
soon, but it's currently quite easy to make Debian package snapshots
('make debian-snapshot").  Feedback/bugs/etc (off list) are very much
appreciated.

As a side note, I'm would like to have a mailing list for the project.
Does anyone have any suggestions other than hosting it myself?  Would it
be possible to use Alioth, or is it reserved only for Debian packaging
projects?

jamie.

[0] http://www.papersapp.com/papers/

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