Any suggestions for library administration software please?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Mike Marchywka wrote:

>I was curious though if there are highly scaled down related
>packages for personal use or authors to track their own library of
>documents? For example, if you get beyond social media factoids and
>write short essays or letters or "citizen scientist" papers or DIY
>projects, how can you track and organize these things? I wrote some
>scripts to generate "technicalreport" bibtex entries as I come up
>with new topics and want to organize notes and I have seen browser
>plugins for citation downloads. Not sure though what command line
>utilities may exist- I guess something that tracked documents in
>latex with version control using just command line utilities. 
>And intead of "check out" perhaps a list of where the documents were
>sent or if possible downloaded from other servers and collate
>feedback as is now common on scientific papers. 

This isn't what you're after, but I couldn't help thinking of it when
you mentioned organizing things. It's called Paperbox:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/Paperbox

The reason it's in the attic on the Gnome wiki is because it's
obsolete, but retained for historical reasons:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic

Also, I went to AlternativeTo.net and did a search for "citation" and
came up with 115 pages of results. This should be enough to keep you
busy for a long time to come and might turn up something useful:

https://alternativeto.net/browse/search?q=citation

Each result displays a brief description, screenshots and/or a video,
lists whether it's free or commercial, lists the platforms it runs
on, and lists its alternatives. If you happen to find one that's
close, but not quite right, its alternatives will be listed just
beneath it, giving you one huge rabbit hole to climb into and wade
around in. Some of the programs aren't in the Ubuntu package manager,
so you'll have to search the package manager for any that seem
interesting.

-- 
Little Girl

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