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?