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Academic Research Tools

Tools for research computing, experiment workflows, scholarly documents, and citation management.

See also: Desktop Apps , Command Line Tools , Development Tools

Research Computing

Tools for scheduling, running, and monitoring computational research.

  • Weft Go 2025

    A terminal-native control plane for placing and running GPU research jobs across workstations, shared servers, and cloud rentals.

    Screenshot of Weft
  • Weft Status Swift 2026

    A macOS menu bar companion and floating HUD that displays current Weft job, rental, and autopilot activity.

    Screenshot of Weft Status

Research Documents

Tools for reading, organizing, converting, and citing scholarly documents.

  • A native macOS viewer for Typst, Markdown, LaTeX, and PDF with notes, review tools, and source-backed paper quizzes.

    Screenshot of Typeset Viewer
  • A command-line tool that intelligently renames academic PDFs based on their content, extracting metadata like title, authors, and publication year.

    Example usage:
    # Rename a single PDF
    rename-academic-pdf paper.pdf
    
    # Process multiple PDFs
    rename-academic-pdf *.pdf
    
    # Use a custom naming pattern
    rename-academic-pdf --pattern "{year}_{first_author}_{title}" paper.pdf
    
    # Dry run to preview changes
    rename-academic-pdf --dry-run downloads/*.pdf
    
  • Raycast ArXiv Extension TypeScript 2025 contributed

    A Raycast extension for searching and managing arXiv papers with multiple viewing formats and citation styles.

    My Contribution:

    Added viewing, citation, and metadata features to the arXiv extension.

    • Multiple viewing formats (Abstract, PDF, TeX Source, HTML)
    • Citation export in multiple formats (BibTeX, APA, MLA, Chicago)
    • Preferences for default open format and citation style
    • Enhanced search results with DOI, publication year, journal references
    • Quick actions to copy various paper links
    • Tooltip showing full author list on hover
    • Full citation display in selected style with category codes
    • Publication venue display with colored tags (journal names, conference venues)
    • Intelligent conference extraction from paper comments (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, etc.)
    • Page count display from paper comments
    • Toggle between 'Time Since Published' and 'Publication Details' display modes
    • Improved data parsing for all available arXiv metadata
    View Pull Request