Is there any smart way to manage scientific papers for offline use in a linux system.
For example:
- It should be possible to tag papers with customizable tags, sort them by tags and so on
- if I see a new paper on arxiv.org and want to read it if I have more time, there should be a nice way to put it to my "read it later list" of my paper manager
- the paper manager should allow me to store bibtex data
- it should give an easy way to write down notes and comments to individual papers (supporting math-formulas)
- support pdf and djvu
- should be easy to backup
I don't need any integration to word-processing software.
Best Answer
Mendeley Desktop (http://www.mendeley.com/) is pretty close to what you want; it supports tagging papers (although I haven't used this feature), adding nodes to papers, viewing/annotating PDFs, and it has web-based imports for several reference sites including arXiv: http://www.mendeley.com/import/. There is a Debian/Ubuntu repository to install the desktop client.
And of course, it can export to bibtex.
Note that it keeps your references on their server, and you might have to change some settings to get it to sync the PDF files with the references, but it stores the data under
~/.local/share/data/Mendeley\ Ltd./Mendeley\ Desktop/so there is a local copy available.