bibdesk-summarize

Automation script for summarizing papers in BibDesk.

Highlights

• 📎Just attach the PDFs to the BibDesk entry and ensure the "annote" field to be empty.
• ⚙️The script will automatically summarize the paper and write to the "annote" field, once the editor window is closed.
• 📄Click on "TeX Preview" to checkout the summary.
• 📖Full LaTeX functionality support for the summary.

Usage

Assume all the commands are executed in the root directory of the repository.

AppleScript Automation

1. Ensure you have Python 3.8+ installed.
2. Edit the BASE_URL, API_KEY and MODEL_NAME line in the ai_summarize.py file to set up your access to LLM services.
3. Execute cp src/ai_summarize.* ~/Library/Application\ Support/BibDesk/Scripts/ to install the script files.
4. Add the ai_summarize.applescript to the "Close Editor Window" hook in BibDesk > Preferences > Script Hooks.

TeX Preview

1. Execute mkdir -p $(kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME)/bibtex/bst to create the necessary directory.
2. Execute cp src/acm-annote.bst $(kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME)/bibtex/bst/ to install the bibtex style file.
3. Execute cp src/previewtemplate.tex ~/Library/Application\ Support/BibDesk/ to override the default preview template.
4. In BibDesk, go to Preferences > Preview, first enable "Generate previews using TeX", and then change the "Full path to pdflatex" to /Library/TeX/texbin/xelatex.

Once you have set up the script, you can use it by:

1. Open an entry in BibDesk and attach the PDF file to it.
2. Ensure the "annote" field is empty.
3. Close the editor window.
4. Wait until the gear icon ⚙️ in the menu bar disappears.
5. Click on the "TeX Preview" button in the BibDesk entry to view the summary.

The first launch may take a while as it sets up the environment and downloads necessary packages. Subsequent launches will be faster.