Note: I don't maintain papershelf anymore. I have replaced it by papr.
Papershelf is a Linux application to organize research papers, books and everything that is a PDF.
Currently this version is in pre-alpha status and there is no package available.
If you want to try it you have to download the source code.
Current features:
- assign tags to papers
- filter papers by tags
- each paper is displayed with a preview which is automatically created when importing a new paper
- add user defined preview for each paper
- you can add an abstract, authors, year of publication, title and a subtitle to a paper
- import new papers
- make notes for each paper
- download papers from an URL
- save backup of notes while making notes for a paper
- progress bar
- customize what information for each paper is displayed in the overview