Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:33:45 +0200 From: Christopher Illies <christopher.illies@ki.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> Subject: Re: PDF inventory software Message-ID: <20090609063345.GA1340@muck.ks.se> In-Reply-To: <b6c05a470906081417x370edb66yb86fac71b462eab8@mail.gmail.com> References: <b6c05a470906081417x370edb66yb86fac71b462eab8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:17:29PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research > articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, > keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) > downloaded onto my local drive. > > In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens > that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously > read, but I only recall a few "things" about the article, often the > author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for > local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The > closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is "image collection" > software.) > > What are some of my options here? If you want something with a GUI, you could have a look at JabRef (needs Java): http://jabref.sourceforge.net/index.php It keeps a BibTeX database, lets you do searches on it and links to the downloaded pdf files. Christopher
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