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.
If you've ever conducted research, you know the drill: drowning in 50 open browser tabs, losing track of downloaded PDFs, juggling separate note-taking apps, and constantly breaking your focus. That's why Papr was built. Powered by Ratatui, Tokio, and SQLite, it brings the entire research workflow**,** from arXiv discovery to manuscript writing using the built-in LaTeX editor, into one fast, terminal-native workspace.
latexmk builds and a split-pane preview.It's 100% open-source, offline-capable, memory-safe, and blazingly fast.
I'd love to hear your thoughts, feature suggestions, or feedback!
Cool idea and at first sight the repo doesn't seem too sloppy. But I have to tell you, the use of em-dashes and emojis definitely makes it look like it's the Slopotron 3000 Max Plus Ultra.
Which emojis are you talking about? I don't have any emojis in my github repo. If you are talking about the reddit post then it's fine.
there is 1 em dash in the entire thing, and like 2 different emojis. what are you talking about
cool project, i probably wont have a use for it anytime soon, but still cool
Still thanks for your comment 😎
Looks interesting, thanks for sharing. How long did it take you to build it out? Was this your first project in Rust?
I have been working on it since last month. I tried working on some other projects too but those failed and I did not have enough motivation for those. And there were some side projects like rendering PDF in terminal and things like that which I incorporated here. So technically it took a long time to get here. But yeah it all started with me learning rust.
I’m interested in how the file system works. Like could I open it within a folder in my obsidian vault so my research is in obsidian to read elsewhere?
I have never tried obsidian. But in settings of this app you can give paths to all the folders where your PDFs are and it will fetch them and also their metadata. So if obsidian stores files locally then yes you can use this.