What is JournalCat?
JournalCat is a free and open-source reference management software designed for researchers to organize, manage, read, annotate, share, discuss and cite research papers and sources.
Key features of JournalCat:
- Store, organize, search and manage citations/references for books, journal articles, conference papers etc.
- Import papers and metadata from files like PDFs to auto-generate citations
- Annotate and highlight attached PDFs; Extract annotations
- Collaborate and share collections with other researchers
- Integrates with MS Word/LibreOffice to easily cite papers while writing
- Sync and access your library from mobile apps (Android, iOS)
- Customize tags, metadata, notes for your need
- Lots of citation styles and flexible bibliography generation
- Free and open-source software (FOSS) with an active developer community
If you deal with lots of papers and sources for your research, JournalCat can be an invaluable tool to build your own knowledge base.
Day One, The Journal, nvALT, Diaro, RedNotebook, Journaley, iDailyDiary, Penzu, Note Board, FiiNote, Idea Notebook are some alternatives to JournalCat.