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Reference Management

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI-Based Bibliography Tools

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Roundup, Scientific

A common misconception is that bibliography tools are really only useful for academics. However, this type of software is a type of reference manager offering the ability to collect large amounts of metadata.

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Reference Management

QuickBib – fetch BibTeX for DOIs and arXiv identifiers

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

QuickBib fetches BibTeX entries from DOIs, arXiv IDs, and known journal URLs. Quickly convert identifiers into usable BibTeX records.

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Reference Managers

11 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Bibliography Tools

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Roundup, TUI

Bibliographic software (also known as citation software or reference managers) plays a very important role in research.

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Reference Managers

Citations – manage your bibliography

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Citations is software designed to manage your bibliographies using the BibTeX format. It’s written in Rust.

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Bible

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Bible Software

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Other, Roundup

Bible software helps to make religious studies more effective, more organised, and more rewarding.

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Reference Managers

bibiman – TUI for fast and simple interaction with a BibLaTeX database

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI

bibiman is a simple terminal user interface for handling your BibLaTeX database as part of a terminal-based scientific workflow.

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Reference Managers

bibman – CLI/TUI bibliography manager

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

bibman is a CLI/TUI bibliography manager. It does not use a database but stores every bibliographic entry as a separate text file.

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Reference Managers

Xapers – personal journal article management system

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, TUI

Xapers is a personal document indexing system, geared towards academic journal articles. It’s written in Python.

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Reference Managers

BibMan – TUI bibliography manager

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI

BibMan is a TUI bibliography manager. Its goal is to support basis features as a general bibliography manager.

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Reference Managers

Bibman – BIBliography MANager

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI

Bibman (BIBliography MANager) is a small console tool for managing BibTeX files. It’s written in Perl .

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Learning with Linux

9 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Flashcard Tools

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Roundup, TUI

This roundup focuses on the finest terminal-based flashcard tools.

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Typesetting Tools

Hayagriva – bibliography management

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education

Hayagriva is a tool that can help you or your apps deal with literature and other media. Use as a library or as a Command Line Interface.

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Flashcards

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Flashcard Software

October 9, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

Flashcards are one of the best tools for memorizing information. This is partly because of their versatility.

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Flashcards

Flashdown – terminal-based spaced repetition using flashcards in Markdown

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI

Flashdown is a minimalist flashcard app for seamless studying and note-taking in Markdown.

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Writing Tools

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Tools for Novelists

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Education, Roundup

The software featured in this article is designed to meet the specialised needs of a budding novelist.

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Flashcards

Essentialist – simple, private, and cross-platform flashcard app

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Essentialist is a minimalist flashcard app for seamless studying and note-taking in Markdown.

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Dictionary Tools

14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Dictionary Tools

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Roundup, Utilities

We recommend the best free and open source dictionary tools.

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Foreign Languages

15 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Foreign Language Tools

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Roundup

We have identified the best of breed free and open source Linux foreign language tools. Learn a new language.

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Education

Lute – Learning Using Texts

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Lute (Learning Using Texts) v3, a Python/Flask tool for learning foreign languages through reading. It’s a standalone web application

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Document Management Systems

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document Processors

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Education, Productivity, Roundup, Scientific

A document processor is a document preparation system. We recommend the best document processors.

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