arXivNow (beta 0.6) - A faster way to browse Astro-ph (for Mac osx 10.6 or later)
Click to Download, register for updates, and view a tutorial.
Developed by Dr. Jason Melbourne
with Support from the California Institute of Technology
arXivNow was built to be an efficient way to browse Astro-ph. It supports keystroke browsing, filtering of articles by your chosen keywords, saving interesting articles into your database, and it tracks the days you have visited Astro-ph. arXivNow also produces bibtex files for easy integration with Bibdesk and Latex.
Releases
beta 0.6 (Sept. 27, 2012)
- fixed Keywords bug
beta 0.5 (Sept. 5, 2012)
- Original Release
Current Capabilities
- Quickly read today’s arXiv (astro-ph) one article at a time
e.g. mouse click, keystrokes, or scroll
- Write notes and keywords on articles
- Filter arXiv on keywords in abstract or title
- Save interesting articles into your database
- Display the PDF of an article
- Track the days you’ve read arXiv
- Revisit missed days
- Save a bibtex file of your database
- Import an existing bibtex file
e.g. put all of your articles into the database
- Update article information from ADS
e.g. update the bibtex, abstracts etc
Future Capabilities
- Pull arXiv for a range of days
- Search ADS
- Vote on VoxCharta
- Drag and drop bibtex text into your database
Known Issues
- Bibtex data is obtained from ADS. There is a brief period each day when the new astro-ph is posted, but ADS does not have the new articles. During this time, arXivNow will not save the bibtex information or a citeKey. You can update these articles later with proper bibtex information, and again a month or so later to get the journal updates.
- Author institutions are not reported.
- Let me know if you find something else!