Show HN: Jendeley – JSON-based document organizing software

https://akawashiro.github.io/jendeley/

by a_kawashiro • 3 years ago

85 11 3 years ago

akawashiro.github.io

I created jendeley to help organize documents for programmers.

- jendeley is JSON-based. You can see and edit your database quickly.

- jendeley works locally. Your important database is owned only by you. No cloud.

- jendeley is browser-based. You can run it anywhere node.js runs.

Repository: https://github.com/akawashiro/jendeley

ttpphd• 3 years ago

Glad that there's more choice, but I couldn't find any features that I don't already have in zotero.

throwanem3• 3 years ago

I had the same question. That said, Zotero's sync story is pitiful and that looks like probably never changing; something like this might easily improve on that owing to the stack it's built on.

edit: I may very well give it a try on that basis. I've got a large collection in Zotero on one of my machines, and a partially overlapping large collection in the Zotero app on my phone, and they are partially overlapping precisely because Zotero sucks at sync. It'd scratch a years-long itch to have my collection unified and easily available for both use and new accession, and Jendeley looks like it may well make that comfortably achievable.

cycomanic• 3 years ago

I have not experienced sync issues with zotero, but if your goal is to have a text based database system that is easier to sync just switch to a bibtex system and one of the many GUIs (I found jabref the best)

anigbrowl2• 3 years ago

This looks great to me. I used to use Mendeley (until Elsevier bought it and locked me out - I forgot my Mendeley password but telling the app this just takes you to the Elsevier signup page?) and though Zotero is good, I have never liked it in terms of look and feel.

One nitpick:

Why jendeley?

As programmers, we require various documents in different formats, such as recent machine learning papers, classic compiler books, CPU and accelerator specification documents, programming language documents, and [...]

This is true for any researcher. I have an absolutely huge document library...and it has nothing to do with programming. I do keep a small repository of useful texts and articles in my development directory, but I'm not a computer scientist; I write code as a means to an end and have no ambitions to run a team or publish a library.

a_kawashiro3• 3 years ago

Thank you for your comments.

I am trying to improve jendeley so that it can replace your huge document library.

anigbrowl2• 3 years ago

I am really looking forward to trying it out. Being able to manage my library through my IDE would make me enormously happy.

tpoacher• 3 years ago

I will probably stick to JabRef, which is bibtex-driven.

But the pdf-folder scanning feature sounds pretty cool!

a_kawashiro3• 3 years ago

Thank you for your comment! I am considering how to deal with BibTeX in jendeley.

Show HN: Jendeley – JSON-based document organizing software

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