Sophosia: Your Research Helper

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Sophosia

Sophosia is a paper/book/note management tool. It is a reference management tool with various useful functionalities such as a built-in PDF reader, live markdown note and excalidraw note.

Manage References and Notes

You can manage your references and corresponding notes in one place. Setting favourites, modifying meta information of a reference, managing tags, searching for references... All essential functionalities are here.

Read and Annotate PDFs

PDF reader comes with an internal link peeker, no need to flip back and forward to read figures, tables and formulas now. Of course, PDF reader supports annotations, and LaTeX is supported in the annotation. Perfect for STEM researchers.

Take Notes with Markdown

WYSIWYG Markdown is the most elegant way to take notes. Together with the power of internal links, you can build your knowledge network.

Draft with Excalidraw

Free your mind using the canvas without borders. Perfect for people who like to write or draw things with a pen.

Contribute to Sophosia

Research Helper uses QUASAR as a framework. In this project, the combination of Vue.js3 and Tauri is used.

Install the dependencies

1. Tauri is needed. The instructions for installing Tauri are on Tauri's official site.
2. The front end will be built using Vue3. The frontend packages are listed in package.json already. Using yarn (recommended) or npm to install them.

yarn # strongly recommended

Start the Tauri app in development mode (hot-code reloading, error reporting, etc.)

yarn dev

To build the app

yarn build

Tests

yarn test:unit:ci # backend unit test
yarn test:component:ci # vue component test

Acknowledgement

This project is made possible by the following open-source projects.

• Quasar
• Tauri
• Vue.js
• citation-js
• Cytoscape
• golden-layout
• pdf.js
• konva
• vditor
• Excalidraw