any2bibtex

An efficient desktop tool for turning paper identifiers into BibTeX.

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✨ Features

• 🔍 Smart Input — Automatically detects DOI, arXiv ID, or paper title
• ⚡ Instant Results — Get BibTeX in seconds
• 📋 One-Click Copy — Copy to clipboard instantly
• 🎨 Spotlight UI — Minimal, keyboard-friendly interface
• ⌨️ Global Shortcut — Option+Space (macOS) / Alt+Space (Windows/Linux)

📥 Installation

Platform	Download	Install
🍎 macOS	any2bibtex.dmg	Open DMG, drag to Applications
🪟 Windows	any2bibtex-Setup.exe	Run installer
🐧 Linux	any2bibtex.AppImage	chmod +x and run

🚀 Usage

1. Press Option+Space (macOS) or Alt+Space (Windows) to open
2. Enter a DOI (10.1038/nphys1170), arXiv ID (2205.15019), or paper title (Attention Is All You Need)
3. Press Enter
4. Click Copy BibTeX

Title Search Notes

• Title search uses Semantic Scholar.
• Without an API key, title search still works, but it uses shared rate limits and may occasionally return rate-limit errors during busy periods.
• You can configure a Semantic Scholar API key inside the app for more reliable title search.
• Semantic Scholar API keys currently have a limit of 1 request/second, cumulative across all endpoints.
• Apply for a Semantic Scholar API key: https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api#api-key-form

🛠 Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
🖥 Frontend	Vue 3 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS
💻 Desktop	Tauri 2
⚙️ Backend	Rust Tauri commands
📦 Build	Vite + Cargo

🗺 Roadmap

• Improve title search matching quality and fallback behavior
• Migrate from Electron + Python backend to Tauri + Rust resolver
• In-app automatic updates with download progress, restart prompt, and update-success confirmation
• Similarity-based reference search (input abstract → find related papers)
• Improve cross-platform packaging and signing

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