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Show HN: Jendeley - JSON-based document organizing software
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
Author : a_kawashiro
Score : 63 points
Date : 2023-02-10 23:10 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (akawashiro.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (akawashiro.github.io)
| ttpphd wrote:
| Glad that there's more choice, but I couldn't find any features
| that I don't already have in zotero.
| throwanem wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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)
| throwanem wrote:
| As typical for recommendations beginning with "just", this
| entirely ignores a critical concern of the problem domain -
| in this case, the phone sync use case I explicitly called
| out in my prior comment. Jabref looks _worse_ than Zotero
| in this regard; where the latter fails but at least makes
| the attempt, the former shows no sign of bothering to try
| at all.
|
| I'm a hobbyist student of hymenopterology, not a
| professional researcher; this is an interest that needs to
| fit into a life with many competing concerns, rather than
| the work my professional life is built around. It should
| not be a great surprise when tools built for and by
| professional researchers fail to meet my needs - to say
| nothing of those tools being built to a typical academic
| standard of software quality, something in the implication
| of whose existence I am being quite generous.
|
| I don't yet know whether Jendeley is any better, but it
| could hardly be any _worse_ , and having been built with
| modern tooling and in a modern HCI paradigm offers
| significant promise of justifying my time and interest.
| (And as I do find things about it I don't like, it won't
| require software archaeology to fix them!)
| a_kawashiro wrote:
| Thank you for your comments.
|
| Although there are many applications to organize
| documents, almost all of them are for only researchers.
| At least, all of them are not for me.
|
| When you are tired of Zotero, please try jendeley. I'm
| waiting for you while improving jendeley.
| anigbrowl wrote:
| 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_kawashiro wrote:
| Thank you for your comments.
|
| I am trying to improve jendeley so that it can replace your
| huge document library.
| ghusto wrote:
| [flagged]
| revskill wrote:
| You should comment on Reddit instead ?
| nishs wrote:
| No need to disparage Reddit, either. :)
| revskill wrote:
| It's a valid comment, but my point is it's not suitable on
| HN, which requires more details of why you said that :)
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