XivAr

Manage your local scientific library!

This tool is in a very early development stage.

Installation

First, install fzf. Then install xivar via

cargo install xivar

Usage

xivar lets you search publications online at DBLP, and download them from a preprint server (arXiv etc.) if available. xivar saves the locations of downloaded publications and shows them in your next search.

Search a publication online and local

xivar search keyword1 keyword2 ...

Search only local

xivar local keyword1 keyword2 ...

Specify a maximum number of hits (default is 100)

xivar search bla bla -n 30

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

• Add pdfs manually
• Export bib-files
• ...