mountlex / xivar

Manage your local scientific library

XivAr

Manage your local scientific library!

This tool is still unstable. Your local database may be corrupt after updating!

Installation

Install xivar via

cargo install xivar

Usage

xivar lets you search publications online at DBLP and arXiv, and open or download them if available. xivar saves the locations of downloaded publications and shows them in your next search.

Search

Search a publication online and local.

xivar

Clean

Clean your database, i.e. remove entries of publications which cannot be found at their saved location.

xivar clean

Configuration

In Linux-based systems, the database is located at ~/.local/share/xivar. Since this is still very much work in progress, the database may be corrupt after updating to a new version!

You can configure the default download location via a configuration file located at ~/.config/xivar/xivar.toml with the following content

document_dir = "absolute/path/to/directory"

Roadmap

• Update library
• Specify query more precisely (title, author, AND, OR etc.)
• ...

xivar's Issues

Open skim after fetching, and display status of fetch tasks

Add update command

Add command: Search paper online manually

Integrate skim instead of fzf

https://github.com/lotabout/skim

Download bib-files from remote

Support other identifier types in add command

Add proper CLI documentation

Change Query to use &str