Update to my first Tauri App: linXiv, now with iroh!
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Update to my first Tauri App: linXiv, now with iroh!

I made a post here about linXiv, asking for tips and tricks to Tauri, about two months ago but since have made a ton of QOL updates and mini, non-obtrusive features (RSS feeds, full-text search, to name a few) and finally added iroh for p2p sharing of research projects, notes, etc...

I would love some feedback as to if anyone finds it useful, interesting, or obvious improvements to make to it. I have found it to be very useful in my own physics research but still want to continue to refine it.

GitHub: linXiv

Website + Docs: linxiv.dev

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u/ManufacturerNice870 — 2 days ago

Tool for helping you Implement Research Papers after you've read them: linXiv

I made a tool that helps me implement research papers in my code by managing papers in a local sqlite DB and allowing models to fetch through an MCP or CLI, I've seen an increased ability in their effectiveness of reproducing results.
Caveat: I believe that this should be a tool that only helps you deepen your learning, and not a replacement for true learning! My best suggestion for AI use would be to only use it for quick prototyping and debugging.
GH: https://github.com/linxiv-dev/linXiv

u/ManufacturerNice870 — 2 months ago

Local-first, FOSS, no-signup, academic paper manager

GitHub: https://github.com/linxiv-dev/linXiv

Hi all, I wanna show off and ask for feedback on my project linXiv, this started as auto-tagging knowledge graph mini-project, is now a "full-stack" research tool for storing and managing academic papers, locally, It fetches papers by arXiv ID or search, stores everything in sqllite. I just finished my Master's and while waiting to hear back from jobs and PhD programs I wanted to build something of my own for once. Because I usually try to find the newest version of a paper on arXiv first, I chose to make linXiv treat arXiv as the primary source to try to resolve by so the metadata imports clean for links and pdfs.

I'm sharing it now because I'm actually using it now and want some feedback from other people with similar workflows before I build more on top of it. I have gotten some strong feedback that I have implemented, but not much overall. The feature I've gotten the best feedback on is the MCP and CLI tools paired with a command line AI tool.

Thanks in advance for trying it out! It's been a blast working on this the last few months, and any honest feedback will be greatly appreciated!

u/ManufacturerNice870 — 2 months ago
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Made a Desktop App in Tauri for managing academic papers

GitHub: https://github.com/linxiv-dev/linXiv

Hi all, I wanna show off and ask for feedback on my project linXiv, this started as auto-tagging knowledge graph mini-project, is now a "full-stack" research tool for storing and managing academic papers, locally, It fetches papers by arXiv ID or search, stores everything in sqllite. I just finished my Master's and while waiting to hear back from jobs and PhD programs I wanted to build something of my own for once. Because I usually try to find the newest version of a paper on arXiv first, I chose to make linXiv treat arXiv as the primary source to try to resolve by so the metadata imports clean for links and pdfs.

I'm sharing it now because I'm actually using it now and want some feedback from other people with similar workflows before I build more on top of it. I have gotten some strong feedback that I have implemented, but not much overall. The feature I've gotten the best feedback on is the MCP and CLI tools paired with a command line AI tool.

Thanks in advance for trying it out! It's been a blast working on this the last few months, and any honest feedback will be greatly appreciated!

u/ManufacturerNice870 — 2 months ago