bibman is a CLI/TUI bibliography manager.
It does not use a database but stores every bibliographic entry as a separate text file. The entry’s associated resource (e.g. pdf, epub, …) is stored using the same name. This should allow for easy manual editing/adding of files.
Under the hood, the pandoc library is used to read and write bibliography entries, which makes this application format-agnostic, as it can ‘read from’ and ‘write to’ all bibliography formats that pandoc can handle:
This is free and open source software.
Website: codeberg.org/KMIJPH/bibman
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Developer: Joseph Kiem
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
bibman is written in Haskell. Learn Haskell with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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