How to Install Docear 1.2 on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10

   Docear is a unique solution to academic literature management and possesses three features that you will not find anywhere else, namely

  a) A unique approach for organizing literature, focusing on your annotations instead of documents
  b) A unique approach for drafting and writing your assignments, papers, books, thesis, etc.
  c) A research paper recommender systems that recommends papers that are entirely free, instantly to download, and tailored to your information needs

    Due to these three unique features, Docear will fundamentally change your way of organizing, creating, and discovering academic literature. But before explaining these three unique features in more detail, have a look what other researchers and students are saying about Docear…


Features

•     Unique concept for organizing literature
• •  Single-section user-interface
  •  Focus on annotations instead of documents
•     Unique ‘literature suite’ approach allowing, among others, to draft papers easily with:
• •  Mind mapping
  •  PDF annotation import (highlighted text, comments, bookmarks)
  •  Reference management (JabRef integration)
  •  File management
  •  Academic search engine*
  •  Add-On for MS-Word
•     Unique recommender system with 2.000.000+ free academic PDFs
•     Platform independent (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
•     PDF Metadata extraction and retrieval (from database with 10.000.000+ entries)
•     Monitoring function to watch folders for new PDFs
•     Very powerful search & filter function (2-dimensional tags/attributes)
•     Extended formatting options (adding screenshots, LaTeX formulas, formatting text)
•     Multi-Language
•     Open Source (GPL)
•     Open data formats such as PDF, XML, and BibTeX
•     Free to use
•     Full control over your data (no registration required)
•     Multiple project support
•     Not evil
•     Online backup (optional)
•     Online viewer**
•     Mobile version*
•     Real-time Collaboration*
•     Synchronization between different devices*

* coming soon
** partly implemented

Docear  1.2 Changelog:

•     Improved PDF Metadata Retrieval
•     Faster PDF Monitoring

Installation instructions:

   The GetDeb repository contains the latest packages of Docear, available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, and derivatives.

Opening terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and running the command:

Ubuntu 16.04 xenial

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list' $ wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add - $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install docear

Ubuntu 16.10 yakkety

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu yakkety-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list' $ wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add - $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install docear