DocuLib

A simple GUI for managing document metadata for books, textbooks, or articles.

Design principle

The underlying idea is to locally store certain types of files in different libraries. Inside a library the directory structure becomes irrelevant and DocuLib keeps track of metadata for you, such as author, title, tags, DOI, etc. You can then quickly find a certain file by using keywords in the metadata. The key features of DocuLib are the following:

• Files can be moved or renamed within or between libraries without losing metadata, changes are detected automatically
• Automatically detect and mark duplicate files
• Metadata includes
  • authors
  • title
  • publishing year
  • tags
  • bookmark
  • notes
  • DOI/ISBN
• Search for metadata on openlibrary.org and semanticscholar.org
• Obtain bibTex from crossref.org
• Manage multiple libraries in different locations
• Error permissive search

Screenshots

Installation

On Debian/Ubuntu:

wget https://github.com/nguermond/doculib/releases/download/v1.3.5/doculib_1.3.5_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i doculib_1.3.5_amd64.deb
sudo apt -f install

On all other systems, with the Opam package manager (see how to install opam)

opam install doculib