JabTUI - the terminal UI for JabRef
JabRef’s strength is that is has all tools to work with BibTeX and BibLaTeX.
Currently, JabRef offers the GUI (known as “JabRef”, internally as “JabGUI”) and a CLI application (known as “JabKit”).
Recently, a library for creating Terminal UIs in Java was published: https://melix.github.io/blog/2026/02/17-announcing-tamboui.html. One can try it out using jbang demos@tamboui.
There are terminal UIs for managing BibTeX available. For instance bibiman or BibMan. However, they are not as feature-rich as JabRef.
The task is now to add a terminal UI based on TamboUI build on top of JabRef.
This project requires strong UX and Software Engineering skills, because the TUI should not be just a copy of the current JabRef interface. It should be intuitively and pleasent to use.
Possible Mentors:
Project size:
350h (large)