v1.0.0
confer — the first stable release. A fast, searchable home for accepted papers from
top conferences and journals: browse the field, follow authors and institutions, and
turn papers into insight.
What's in v1.0.0
Search & discovery
- Full-text search with field-aware prefixes —
author:,title:,inst:,track:— and-exclusion. - Search bar ghost completion: type a partial prefix (e.g.
au) and press Tab to insert it; Chinese IME protected. - Active-filter chips for status, tags, collections, "Noted", venue, track, and event type — all combinable.
- Saved searches: bookmark any filter + sort state under a name for instant recall.
Authors, affiliations & insights
- Author disambiguation: hybrid ORCID / OpenAlex author-id system with name+affiliation fallback.
- Hover any author to see their institution; click to pull up all papers from that institution.
- Live Insights rail: real-time top-institution / top-author / top-track bar charts for whatever is in view; click any bar to drill in.
- Topic trend chart: top-5 tracks plotted as a multi-line SVG chart across selected venue editions.
- Relationship networks: interactive co-author and institution-collaboration graphs for the current result set.
Your library
- Venue groups: combine venue series into named groups (e.g. "My SE list") that appear in the sidebar.
- Collections: save papers into named collections; filter from the sidebar.
- Per-paper tags: free-form labels with a combobox; filter by tag from the active-filter bar; Chinese IME handled correctly.
- "Your library" stats card in Settings: collected papers, collections, distinct tags, notes, to-read / reading / done, groups, and saved searches — computed live.
Reading status & notes
- 4-state reading status on each card: None → To read → Reading → Done; filter the list to any status.
- Private notes: preview/edit dialog; delete, save, cancel; filter to noted papers with the "Noted" toggle.
- "Find similar": icon button in the expanded abstract surfaces related papers from across the full corpus.
- "For you" recommendations: toolbar button recommends papers based on your saved, tagged, and noted papers; supports inline actions and bulk-add to collection.
Selection & export
- Select papers with row checkboxes; copy BibTeX or download CSV with DOI, authors, and publication metadata.
GitHub Gist sync
- Sign in with GitHub to sync groups, collections, tags, saved searches, reading status, and notes via a private Gist — only you can read it.
- 3-state sync pill (Pending / Syncing… / Synced ✓) with ⌘S / Ctrl+S manual sync.
- Config version history: full timeline of synced revisions with plain-language summaries (e.g. "1 collection · 3 tags"), expandable per-category breakdowns, and Restore to roll back to any earlier version.
- 3-way merge for sync conflicts: different-item changes resolve silently; same-item conflicts show a diff modal.
- Cross-tab sync, best-effort keepalive flush on tab close, ETag conditional GET, sync retry with exponential backoff.
Share & import/export
- Export your full settings bundle or share a single collection via a URL hash link.
- Import a shared bundle in one click.
Site & UX
- Light / dark / auto (follows OS) themes; four accent colours (clay, sage, ocean, dusk).
- Keyboard shortcuts: ⌘K / Ctrl+K to focus search, ⌘/ to open shortcuts panel, j/k to move focus, Enter to expand, ⌘S to sync.
- Responsive mobile layout with full-bleed safe areas.
- Collapsible sidebar with animated transitions; responsive mobile drawer.
- Per-year official-site link on each venue edition in the sidebar.
Venue coverage
Conferences and journals across EDA, computer architecture, software engineering,
testing, programming languages, security & privacy, systems/networking, AI/ML, and NLP —
multiple yearly editions per series, with more added purely through configuration.
See CHANGELOG.md for the full per-date history.