The all-in-one, local-first research workspace. Papers, notes, ideas, jobs, proposals, conferences, CV and your academic website — 18 integrated sections, auto-enriched from 7 scholarly databases, stored in open formats you own forever.
Papers in one tool, notes in another, deadlines in a third, job applications in a spreadsheet, proposals in email. None of them talk to each other — you are the integration layer.
You spend more time moving data between tools than doing research. Every context switch loses a thought.
Notion is down at 2am before a deadline. No WiFi at the telescope. Your work held hostage by servers you don't control.
Mendeley was nearly shut down by Elsevier. Papers 3 was abandoned, breaking years of libraries. Your data should outlive any company.
Built for the full lifecycle of academic research — 18 integrated sections, all cross-linked, all deadlines unified in one calendar.
Paste a DOI, arXiv ID, ADS bibcode or InspireHEP key — full metadata cascades in from every major database. BibTeX import/export, auto citekeys, read-status tracking, 10,000+ CSL citation styles.
Turn your EUKOSMOS data into a personal academic website — publications, CV, projects and contact, generated from what you already track. No copy-pasting your paper list ever again.
→ see the guideTrack applications through the full funnel, manage referees with email templates — and search live academic job listings from the built-in portal.
→ how it worksSplit-pane Markdown editor with live KaTeX preview. Backlinks between notes and papers. Export to PDF or .docx.
→ how it worksEvery deadline from every section — proposals, todos, checklist steps, jobs, conferences — in one calendar with .ics import.
→ how it worksYour structured academic CV, assembled from data you already entered. Papers, talks, grants, positions — export as formatted .docx.
→ how it worksSQLite FTS5 with BM25 ranking across all 18 sections at once. Under 50 ms even with 10,000 papers.
→ how it worksExtend EUKOSMOS with native plugin sections. The Chrome extension clips papers from any publisher page straight into your library.
→ learn moreNo account. No cloud. No installer. EUKOSMOS runs on the Python already on your machine — the core uses zero third-party packages.
Join early access and we send you the current beta build — Mac, Windows and Linux, Python 3.8 or newer.
python serve.py — EUKOSMOS opens at localhost:8080 in seconds. Add your free ADS token once for enrichment.
Drop in your .bib file or paste a DOI. Metadata fills itself in. Everything else — notes, jobs, deadlines — lives beside it.
# EUKOSMOS core — pure Python standard library, no pip installs required python serve.py # → open http://localhost:8080 # optional extras (only if you want .docx export, image EXIF, .ics import) pip install python-docx Pillow icalendar
EUKOSMOS queries seven scholarly databases in sequence, taking the richest metadata each one offers.
Small, sharp, browser-based tools for researchers — each one free at its own subdomain.
EUKOSMOS runs entirely on your machine, and two tiers are free forever — including a free Student tier. Paid tiers add unlimited entries, more encrypted cloud sync, longer version history and multi-device access.
Prices in USD · loaded live from the EUKOSMOS control plane · billing opens with the Pro launch — early subscribers get first access.
Compared with the three tools researchers use most. Where we don't win yet, we say so.
| Feature | ✦ EUKOSMOS | Zotero | Mendeley | Notion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core principles | ||||
| Local-first, fully offline | ✓ always | partial | ✗ | ✗ |
| Data in open files (JSON / SQLite) | ✓ | SQLite | proprietary | proprietary |
| No telemetry / vendor analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ (Elsevier) | ✗ |
| Metadata & enrichment | ||||
| Auto DOI enrichment — 7 databases | ✓ only EUKOSMOS | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| ADS / arXiv / InspireHEP native | ✓ built-in | plugin | ✗ | ✗ |
| BibTeX import / export | ✓ + auto citekeys | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Research workflow | ||||
| KaTeX equations in notes | ✓ live preview | ✗ | ✗ | limited |
| Jobs, referees + live job portal | ✓ full | ✗ | ✗ | manual |
| Unified deadline calendar | ✓ all sections | ✗ | ✗ | partial |
| CV builder + academic website | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | manual |
| Honest gaps | ||||
| Built-in PDF annotation | your viewer† | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Word / Google Docs plugin | planned | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Native mobile app | planned | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
† EUKOSMOS opens PDFs in your default viewer (Preview, Acrobat, Skim) — annotations save to the file and persist. Your existing PDF tool is better than anything we'd rebuild.
Finally a reference manager that doesn't lock my data behind a subscription. The DOI cascade is extraordinary — paste an ADS bibcode and everything fills in, from ADS to Semantic Scholar.
The browser extension changed how I collect papers. One click from the publisher page and the PDF lands with the right filename, right in my EUKOSMOS folder.
I manage papers, proposals, referee lists and my CV in one place. Because it's a local folder, I can sync with institutional Dropbox without worrying about data privacy.
No account required to run it. No data leaves your machine unless you turn on sync.
We send the current beta build and every update. Python 3.8+, zero required packages.
One-click paper capture from publisher pages, straight into your library with clean filenames.
Signed one-click .app and .exe installers with auto-update — the v1.0 milestone.
Yes — there are two free tiers. Free gives you 200 entries and 200 MB of sync storage; the Student tier is also completely free with 500 entries and 500 MB. Paid tiers add unlimited entries, more encrypted cloud sync, longer version history and multi-device access. If a subscription ever lapses you degrade gracefully to Free — your data is never locked.
In a local folder you choose: SQLite plus plain JSON and Markdown files. You can read every byte with standard tools, back it up with Dropbox or Time Machine, and take it with you forever.
Yes — export your library as a .bib file and bulk-import it. EUKOSMOS re-enriches every entry from the seven-database cascade, usually ending up with richer metadata than you started with.
Completely. Enrichment needs the internet to query the databases; everything else — reading, writing, searching, exporting — works with no connection at all.
Python 3.8 or newer and a modern browser. The core has zero third-party dependencies — python serve.py and you're in. Signed desktop installers (Tauri) are targeted for 2027.