notion-scholar
Reference management solution using Python and Notion.
The main idea of this app is to allow to furnish a Notion database using a BibTex formatted string or file. It also helps you to organize papers, create a bibliography and give you the opportunity to annotate the publications directly on their Notion's pages.
Database
Example of a database obtained using notion-scholar.
Requirements
The properties necessary to import publications in the database are the following:
- title (Name of the page)
- authors (Text)
- year (Number)
- journal (Text)
- filename (Text)
- url (URL)
- abstract (Text)
- bibtex (Text)
- inbox (Checkbox)
The properties can have any capitalization.
Template
Dashboard template images
Installation
pip install git+https://github.com/thomashirtz/notion-scholar#egg=notion-scholar
You can now call the application using notion-scholar or ns
Help
For getting help it is possible to call:
ns --help
Output:
usage: Use "notion-scholar --help" or "ns --help" for more information
notion-scholar
positional arguments:
{run,set,inspect-config,clear-config}
Selection of the action:
run Run notion-scholar.
set Save the default values of notion-scholar.
inspect-config Inspect the notion-scholar config.
clear-config Clear the notion-scholar config.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
Four main mode exists: run, set, inspect-config and clear-config. The help can be called this way:
ns
--help
ns run --help
Output:
usage: Use "notion-scholar --help" or "ns --help" for more information run [-h] [-t] [-db] [-f] [-s]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t , --token Token used to connect to Notion. (Already set? True)
-db , --database-url
Database that will be furnished (default:
)
-f , --bib-file-path
Bib file that will be used. This argument is required if the bib file is not saved in the
config and no bib-string is passed. (default:
)
-s , --bib-string Bibtex entries to add (must be in-between three quotes """
"""). By default, the
entries will be saved to the bib file from the config. It is possible to disable this behavior
by changing the "save" option: "ns set -save false".
ns set --help
Output:
usage: Use "notion-scholar --help" or "ns --help" for more information set [-h] [-f] [-s] [-t] [-db]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-f , --bib-file-path
Save the input file path in the user config using "platformdirs". The path must be absolute
and the file need to exist. (default:
)
-s , --save Set whether the entries from "bib-string" will be saved in the bib file. (default: True)
-t , --token Save the Notion token using "keyring".
-db , --database-url
Save the database-url in the user config using the library "platformdirs". (default:
)
Setting up
Token and database URL
For the first use, it is recommended to set up the configuration file. The main parameters to save are the token (which will be securely saved using the "keyring" library) and the database-url.
ns set --token
--database-url
or
ns set -t
-db
Note: The notion token can be found by:
Launching a browser ⇨ Connect to notion.so ⇨ Inspect (F12) ⇨ Cookies ⇨ token_v2
Bib file path
If you want to set the default bib path that will be used when the ns run is called, you can set it by typing:
ns set --bib-file-path
or
ns set -f
The bib file needs to exist and the file path needs to be absolute.
Inspecting & clearing the configuration
It is possible to see all the configurations saved by typing:
ns inspect-config
Moreover, it is possible to erase all the config saved (token, database_url, ...) by running:
ns clear-config
How to use ?
There is three main way to use this application:
- Setting up the
bib-file-pathand call therunmode (It will automatically upload the new publications from the bib file into the database):
ns run
- Giving the
bib-file-pathargument:
ns run -f
- Giving a
bib-stringargument (/!\ be careful to type three quotes"""before pasting thebib-string) :
ns run -s """"
"""
The --token (-t) and the --database_url (-db) are also required, however, if they have been set, they don't need to be added again to the argument list.
Tips
Bibtex keys
When uploading a BibTex file into the database, the BibTex citekey will be mapped to the property "filename". This is because it seems convenient to have the same name for the key and the filename. It is therefore advised to change the citekey before uploading to Notion.
This is ~ the nomenclature I used for the citekey (source). Feel free to take inspiration:
Nomenclature
Filename:
aaaayyyyxxxx.pdf
Where:
aaaa: Name of the first author (variable length)yyyy: Year of publication (fixed length)xxxx: First word of title, minus articles and other small words (variable length)
For example:
Attention Is All You Need, Ashish Vaswani et al., 2017
Would give:
vaswani2017attention.pdf
If an author publish two papers the same year with the same beginning first word, it is possible to add an 1 and 2 depending on which one was the first released.
For example:
- Soft Actor-Critic Algorithms and Applications, Tuomas Haarnoja et al., 2018
haarnoja2018soft1.pdf - Soft Actor-Critic: Off-Policy Maximum Entropy Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Stochastic Actor, Tuomas Haarnoja et al., 2018
haarnoja2018soft2.pdf
Copy equation properties
It is possible to copy the equation in the table view. Here is a comment to explain how, it can be very useful.
To-do
- Add docstrings
- Add possibility to upload files
- Improve template
Feedbacks
If you want to see a new feature, or you have some feedback to give, feel free to email me at [email protected].
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License
Copyright 2021 Thomas Hirtz
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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