@a_kawashiro/jendeley

jendeley

jendeley is a JSON-based paper organizing software.

• jendeley is JSON-based. You can see and edit your database easily.
• jendeley is working locally. Your important database is owned only by you. Not cloud.
• jendeley is browser based. You can run it anywhere node.js runs.

Install

npm install @a_kawashiro/jendeley -g

How to scan your PDFs

jendeley scan --papers_dir <YOUR PDFs DIR>

Launch jendeley UI

jendeley launch --db <YOUR PDFs DIR>/jendeley_db.json

Then you can see a screen like this!

If you don't have any PDFs, please use Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition.

Launch automatically

When you are using Linux, you can launch jendeley automatically using systemd. Please make ~/.config/systemd/user/jendeley.service with the following contents, run systemctl --user enable jendeley && systemctl --user start jendeley and access http://localhost:5000. You can check log with journalctl --user -f -u jendeley.service.

[Unit]
Description=jendeley JSON based document organization software

[Service]
ExecStart=jendeley launch --db <FILL PATH TO THE YOUR DATABASE JSON FILE> --no_browser

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Check your database

Because jendeley is fully JSON-based, you can check the contents of the database easily. For example, you can use jq command to list up all titles in your database with the following command.

> cat test_pdfs/db.json | jq '.[].title'
"MobileNets: Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision\n  Applications"
"Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition"
"A quantum hydrodynamical description for scrambling and many-body chaos"