nkt ☆

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Description:
TUI for fast and simple interacting with your BibLaTeX database

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 0.3.1@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 7, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Productivity

Tags: bibliography latex tui productivity academic

Install: brew install nkt

About:
nkt is a terminal user interface (TUI) designed for rapid interaction with BibLaTeX bibliographic databases. It provides a streamlined, keyboard-driven workflow for searching, viewing, and managing references directly from the command line. This tool enhances productivity for researchers and academics by removing the overhead of GUI-based reference managers for common tasks.

Key Features:

Fast, interactive TUI for searching and filtering references
Integration with standard command-line tools (e.g., fzf, bat)
Supports reading from and writing to BibLaTeX files
Minimal dependencies and lightweight design

Use Cases:

Quickly finding and citing references while writing papers in a terminal-based editor like Vim or Neovim
Managing and cleaning up BibLaTeX files from the command line
Integrating bibliography workflows into a terminal-centric development environment

Alternatives:

papis – papis is a more feature-rich library manager with a larger CLI, while nkt focuses on a minimal, interactive TUI experience.
JabRef – JabRef is a full-featured GUI application, whereas nkt is a lightweight, keyboard-driven terminal tool.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 7, 2025 11:47pm		0	NEW	c6b3ec06