[mfsch]

I’ve recently started a little project for my own reference manager. Since I end up writing papers in Latex, I want my bib file(s) to be the ground truth and I’m slightly obsessive about things like consistent capitalization and author names. I’d rather not fight my reference manager to eventually produce the bib file I want if I can just create that bib file in the first place.

Everything I want from a reference manager can be done in a relatively simple command line tool with an interface similar to beets. Only the extraction of DOIs from PDFs looks like it will have to be a bit hacky, but if `ref im article.pdf` works for 90% of articles and asks me to provide the DOI for the other 10%, that’s good enough for me.