📚 Research Paper Organizer

---

A clean, minimal, and static web-based tool built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to help students, researchers, and professionals neatly organize, categorize, and access their research papers in one place.

🚀 This is an open-source beginner-friendly project aimed at promoting open collaboration, UI enhancement, and useful features like tagging, filtering, and paper previews.

---

🌟 Stars	🍴 Forks	🐛 Issues	🔔 Open PRs	🔕 Closed PRs	🛠️ Languages	👥 Contributors

---

✨ Features

• 🎯 Static single-page application (SPA) with smooth UI
• 📁 Add and organize research paper entries
• 📇 Sort and filter by category (like AI, ML, Web, etc.)
• 🔍 Search bar to quickly find a paper
• 📌 Visual cards for each paper with title, author(s), and description
• 🎨 Built with pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – no frameworks

---

🛠️ Tech Stack

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Python

---

📂 Project Structure

📦 Research-Paper-Organizer
├── 📂 .github/                  # GitHub workflows, issue & PR templates
├── 📂 .vscode/                  # VS Code workspace settings
├── 📂 backend/                  # Backend code
│   ├── 📂 src/                  
│   │   ├── 📂 config/           # Configuration files
│   │   ├── 📂 controllers/      # Business logic
│   │   ├── 📂 middleware/       # Middleware functions
│   │   ├── 📂 models/           # Database models
│   │   ├── 📂 routes/           # API routes
│   │   ├── 📂 utils/            # Helper utilities
│   │   └── 📜 app.js            # App entry point
│   │
│   ├── 📜 .env.example          # Example environment variables
│   ├── 📜 .gitignore            # Git ignore rules
│   ├── 📜 package-lock.json     # Dependency lockfile
│   ├── 📜 package.json          # Backend dependencies & scripts
│   └── 📜 test-env.js           # Environment test script
│
├── 📂 css/                      # Stylesheets
│   ├── 📜 Tag-Based-filtering.css
│   ├── 📜 about.css
│   ├── 📜 add-organize-papers.css
│   ├── 📜 ats-checker.css
│   ├── 📜 auth.css
│   ├── 📜 blog.css
│   ├── 📜 contact.css
│   ├── 📜 faq.css
│   ├── 📜 forgot-password.css
│   ├── 📜 glossary.css
│   ├── 📜 hemingway.css
│   ├── 📜 open-source.css
│   ├── 📜 pdf-annotator.css
│   ├── 📜 pdf-viewer.css
│   ├── 📜 profile-settings.css
│   ├── 📜 style.css
│   ├── 📜 summarize.css
│   └── 📜 tool.css
│
├── 📂 docs/                     # Documentation files
├── 📂 favicon/                  # Favicon & PWA assets
├── 📂 images/                   # Image assets
├── 📂 js/                       # JavaScript files
│
├── 📜 .gitignore
├── 📜 Faq.html
├── 📜 License
├── 📜 Masthead.html
├── 📜 Pdfconverter.html
├── 📜 Research_Paper_Summary.py
├── 📜 TODO.md
├── 📜 Tag-Based-filtering.html
├── 📜 about.html
├── 📜 about_new.html
├── 📜 add-organize-papers.html
├── 📜 app.js
├── 📜 ats-checker.html
├── 📜 auth-callback.html
├── 📜 blog.html
├── 📜 contact.html
├── 📜 forgot-password.html
├── 📜 glossary.html
├── 📜 hemingway.html
├── 📜 home.html
├── 📜 index.html
├── 📜 landing.css
├── 📜 landing.js
├── 📜 login.html
├── 📜 manage.py
├── 📜 offline.html
├── 📜 open-source.html
├── 📜 package.json
├── 📜 pdf-annotator.html
├── 📜 pdf-viewer.html
├── 📜 privacy.html
├── 📜 profile-settings.html
├── 📜 profile.html
├── 📜 roadmap.html
├── 📜 signup.html
├── 📜 site.webmanifest
├── 📜 slider.css
├── 📜 summarize.html
├── 📜 terms-of-service.html
├── 🖼️ test1.jpg
├── 🖼️ testimonialw.png
└── 📜 tools.html

💡 How to Use

1. Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/supriya46788/Research-Paper-Organizer.git

2. Open index.html in your browser (right click and open with live server).
3. Start adding your research papers directly.

---

🚀 Getting Started

Before running the project, make sure you have the following installed:

✅ Prerequisites

• Git – to clone the repository

• Python 3.8+ – required for backend scripts (manage.py, Research_Paper_Summary.py)

• Node.js & npm – required for frontend dependencies (package.json)

• Code Editor (VS Code recommended) – for editing and running the project

• Web Browser (Chrome/Firefox) – to view the HTML pages

---

📷 Screenshots

---

🎯 Open Source Programmes ⭐

🌟 Exciting News...

This project is now an official part of GirlScript Summer of Code – GSSoC'25! 🎉 We're thrilled to welcome contributors from all over India and beyond to collaborate, build, and grow Research-Paper-Organizer! Let’s make learning and career development smarter – together! 👨‍💻

GSSoC is one of India’s largest 3-month-long open-source programs that encourages developers of all levels to contribute to real-world projects 🌍 while learning, collaborating, and growing together.👨‍💻

With mentorship, community support, and collaborative coding, it's the perfect platform for developers to:

• ✨ Improve their skills
• 🤝 Contribute to impactful projects
• 🏆 Get recognized for their work
• 📜 Receive certificates and swag!

🎉 can’t wait to welcome new contributors** from GSSoC 2025 to this Research-Paper-Organizer project family! Let's build, learn, and grow together — one commit at a time. 🔥👨‍💻👩‍💻

---

🔮 Future Overview

This project aims to become a fully functional research management system with features like:

• Cloud Syncing for research papers.
• AI-based categorization for auto-tagging papers.
• PDF annotation and in-browser reading.
• Collaborator mode for group research.
• Integration with Google Scholar / Zotero.

---

🛠️ Roadmap (Planned Features)

• • Add localStorage support to save entries*
• • Add dynamic paper upload & preview*
• • Add PDF embedding and reading inside cards*
• • Responsive design for mobile view*
• • Dark mode toggle*
• • Convert to a fully dynamic app (React/Vanilla JS)*
• • Login/signup feature for cloud syncing*

---

🔖 Contribution Guidelines

• Stick to clean and readable code
• Make small, well-documented pull requests
• For design changes, try to follow a minimal UI
• Always link issues you're solving
• Ask questions or open discussions freely in the Issues tab

---

📜 Code of Conduct

Please refer to the Code of Conduct for details on contributing guidelines and community standards.

---

🤝👤 Contribution Guidelines

We love our contributors! If you'd like to help, please check out our CONTRIBUTE.md file for guidelines.

---

Thank you once again to all our contributors who has contributed to Research-Paper-Organizer! Your efforts are truly appreciated. 💖👏

See the full list of contributors and their contributions on the GitHub Contributors Graph.

Show some by starring this awesome repository!

---

💡 Suggestions & Feedback

Feel free to open issues or discussions if you have any feedback, feature suggestions, or want to collaborate!

---

🙌 Support & Star

If you find this project helpful, please give it a star! ⭐ to support more such educational initiatives!

---

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the License file for details.

---

⭐ Stargazers

---

🍴 Forkers

---

🧑‍💻Project Admin:

Supriya

---

👨‍🏫 Mentors – Research-Paper-Organizer (GSSoC'25)

Role	Name	GitHub Profile	LinkedIn Profile
Mentor 1	Sanskriti saran	Sanskriti-Saran	sanskriti-saran
Mentor 2	MEKALA VAMSHI YADAV	VAMSHIYADAV46	MEKALA VAMSHI YADAV

---

👨‍💻 Built with ❤️ by Research-Paper-Organizer Team

❤️Supriya Pandey and Contributors ❤️

open an issue | Watch Demo

---

⬆️ Back to Top

Ready to show off your coding achievements? Get started with Research-Paper-Organizer today! 🚀