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You found the paper. Now where's the BibTeX? 🧵 It happens every time! You track down the right reference — some older journal article, a conference paper, a preprint — scroll down to "Cite this paper", and get… a plain text citation. 1/7

We built a simple tool to fix exactly this: text2bibtex. The app is simple: paste any plain-text citation and get a clean, ready-to-use BibTeX entry back. github.com/user-atta... 2/7

But the real magic is the bookmarklet. Drag it once to your bookmarks bar. Then, on any webpage — a journal site, a preprint server, a bibliography — highlight the citation, click the bookmarklet, and the BibTeX is already in your clipboard. 3/7

Under the hood it's powered by #Grobid, a battle-tested machine learning library for extracting structured data from scientific documents. The same technology used to process millions of PDFs at scale — now doing one job really well, in one click. 5/7

Results are automatically extracted, so always give the output a quick review before dropping it into your .bib file — especially on older or inconsistently formatted references. 6/7