This is my personal fork of Stian Håklev's ingenious tool and script collection called researchr.

researchr realizes an easy to use scientific workflow for Mac OS X plattforms using mainly Chrome Skim, BibDesk, Keyboard Maestro and DokuWiki, "glued" together by a ton of Ruby skripts making up an easy to use workflow for researching and acquiring literature, reading them, processing the information and develop own ideas based on what you read, as well as store it for later uses. There's a detailed description on Stians Wiki and some live demos, e.g. this one, to give you an impression of the power of researchr. I've also written a blog entry on it.

After getting everything set up, I'd like to contribute. Most importantly I would like to keep this workflow as open source and cross plattform as possible (I deem this difficult for Skim and BibDesk (thoug BibDesk could maybe be replaced by JabRef)). Especially, tools like Taskpaper or Scrivener can be replaced by Markup files and an Editor such as vim. Instead of producing Scrivener-created Word- or RTF-Documents, directly editable LaTeX would be nice. And instead of using Chrome many people rather use Firefox (including myself).

In my opinion this might help making researchr availiable to more people. At least it would suite my purposes better.

For now the installation of this system is a wild list of do-it-yourself steps to get up and running, including installation of all components, setting up all the gems, etc. If possible I'd like to wrap it up into an easy to handle installation script (e.g. by using rvm and bundler). Untill then, there's a GoogleDocs file explaining what to do, to get up and running.

Please all credit Stian for his ingenious idea of inventing this workflow, which he has been doing for three years now (without even having CS as his field of studies!). It's really great work!