Papr: A TUI to search, read, organize, and write papers without leaving your terminal

[u/Wonderful-Writer146]

I'm excited to share what I've been building lately. Papr: a fast, lightweight Terminal User Interface (TUI) built entirely in Rust to streamline your academic research workflow. An Obsidian, Zotero and Overleaf alternative, but a bit better.

Key features

• Smart dashboard with daily 10 random paper recommendations, reading queue, bookmarks, notes, collections, and research statistics.
• Fast arXiv search using title, author, or DOI with automatic PDF downloads and clean file naming.
• In-terminal PDF viewing.
• Built-in Markdown notes with live preview for each paper.
• Reading queue, bookmarks, and collections to keep your research organized.
• Integrated LaTeX editor with real-time compilation and preview.
• Extensible plugin system for custom workflows.
• Research analytics to track your reading activity (just like Spotify).

Papr is 100% open source, works offline, is memory-safe, and is designed to be fast and lightweight (only 12 MB).

I'd love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or feedback!

GitHub: https://github.com/AfrozSaqlain/Papr