Hayagriva is a tool that can help you or your apps deal with literature and other media.
Hayagriva can be used both as a library and as a Command Line Interface (CLI).
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Data structures for literature collections.
- Reading and writing said collections from YAML files.
- Formatting literature into reference list entries and in-text citations as defined by popular style guides.
- Interoperability with BibTeX.
- Querying your literature items by type and available metadata.
Website: github.com/typst/hayagriva
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Developer: Typst
License: Apache License 2.0 or MIT License

Hayagriva is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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