bibliographic software (linux only)

[Chris Menzel]

Rich,

The Better BibTeX Zotero plug-in
(https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/) beautifully
integrates Zotero and BibTeX. I did an initial import of my (very large)
BibTeX file into Zotero and now use Zotero exclusively, relying on the
plug-in to update my BibTeX file whenever I make changes in Zotero. It's
only one-way integration — you can't modify your BibTeX file and expect
those changes to be reflected in Zotero, but I have frankly not found any
reason to work on my BibTeX file directly since switching to this method.
HERE
<https://richardzach.org/2019/02/09/bibtex-friendly-pdf-management-with-zotero/>
is a helpful blog post about it by Calgary logician Richard Zach.

-chris


On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:26 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> I've used JabRef for years but 5.x frustrates me to no end. They've lost
> the
> emacs keyboard chords that were present from 1.x through 4.x so to edit an
> abstract, for example, I need to use the arrow and Del keys. And, they've
> changed the UI so some data entry tabs have their widgets on the left half
> of the application window and the entry preview on the right halt. But,
> accessing the right-hand column of the data entry widgets must be done
> blind
> because that half window cannot be expanded to the right. Serious PITA.
> Yes,
> I've filed bug issues on both but nothing's been fixed. I've tried using
> KDE's bibliography tool but that was equally frustrating. And Zotero
> doesn't
> use bibtex.
>
> Since I'm not a full-time researcher I don't need to share the bibiography
> with collaborators and I will not store it somewhere in the cloud; my data,
> my network. I also don't particularly care for a GUI; text-based works for
> me since that's how I do most of my work (except when using LyX).
>
> I've about 1,200 books and PDFs in the bibtex database and other than
> entering new documents I want to search primarily by keywords, secondarily
> by authors.
>
> Does anyone know of a CLI bibliographic tool? Or a basic one with a GUI
> that
> Just Works(TM)?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
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