litman is a command-line tool that stores research papers locally on your computer and uses an AI assistant (Claude) to automatically file, organize, and manage them. It supports BibTeX, knowledge management, and functions as a local-first reference manager for academic and technical users. The project is open-source under the MIT license.
In the Developer Tools space, litman takes a focused approach. Manually organizing and filing research papers and maintaining bibliographies on your local machine. It is built as an open-source project for researchers. The project is open source (MIT). litman is available on the command line, and it can be self-hosted.
It is developed by wqx1999, and it first shipped in 2026. Development happens publicly on GitHub with 474 commits in the last 90 days. Key capabilities include Local Paper Storage, AI Filing, and BibTeX Support.
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