Papis

What Papis is

Papis is a command-line tool for managing documents and bibliographic records, with records stored in human-readable YAML files. Users can search a library by author, title, tags, and other fields, import records from other bibliography managers, retrieve document metadata, and export to BibTeX and other formats. Its importers can obtain information from sources such as arXiv and Crossref. The project lists plugins for Vim, Neovim, and Emacs, plus integrations including rofi, dmenu, Zotero, and Firefox. Python package entry points let third-party plugins add importers and downloaders, and a Python API is available for scripting. Papis also includes a web app that can be launched locally with `papis serve`; the documented address is `http://localhost:8888`. Installation options include pip, source, Arch Linux AUR, Nix, and a Guix recipe. The project describes local YAML storage and document sharing without a proprietary service. If an importer is unavailable for a website, users may need to download the PDF and enter its metadata themselves. Papis is free and open source.