zeno (Zenodotus) Comprehensive environment for using and managing documents Coded in C++

Desired Features:

Read PDFs Annotate PDFs Get data (bibliographic data such as author, year etc.) from PDF Metadata, Google Scholar etc. Export bilbiographic data in BibTex format, LibreOffice format? etc. Manage library of pdfs Search and cite Arxiv (other journals?) Share articles and books - p2p, use freenet? retroshare? git? Remove digital watermarks prior to sharing Share annotations Find and communicate with users with similar interests - profiles/workgroups? Get the bilbiography from the paper (i.e. the papers etc. that that paper cites, not its own bibliographic data) Support different citation styles

Similar software (for inspiration, possibly code in open source cases):

Mendeley Zimwiki (notes) Calibre (library management) zotero (annotations/metadata) zotfile (imports annotations into zotero) cb2bib (metadata) Docear (annotations, links to notes) Retroshare (networking) Conquiere (most stuff, though not p2p and dependent on nepomuk) Skim (annotations) pdf xchange viewer (annotations, networking?)

Additional Info:

See following threads: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29385/ http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/s2ck9/possible_project_idea_a_free_p2penabled/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/rz1b6/the_future_of_casual_piracy/

Coding Practices:

Comments should be handled with doxygen ( http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual.html ) so that documentation can be generated Perhaps try Trello ( https://trello.com/ ) for management/communication.

Possible directory structure: /bin/ - stores binaries/executables will be added to .gitignore as these should not be uploaded /data/ - stores supporting data such as annotations? pdfs? /doc/ - stores documentation /inc/ - stores header files /src/ - stores source files /tests/ - stores test code

TODO:

Plan out structure of application and development Create UML diagrams - use Modelio? Design GUI / environment Decide on coding conventions (one true brace?), directory structure etc. Begin with essential features such as pdf reading/annotating and sharing

Major Changes:

23/05/2012: Repo created, README uploaded, possible directory structure uploaded, .gitignore created