JabRef/user-documentation

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User documentation of JabRef

Stars: 54
Forks: 142
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 87
Avg merge: 23h 56m
Merged PRs (30d): 12

Dominant language: CSS
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 12, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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87 open issues indexed

Update theming docs for new theme + color scheme preferences (JabRef/jabref#15798) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

JabRef/user-documentation#660 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Add information on Git feature in JabRef Open

Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 76/100

JabRef/user-documentation#647 · Opened Jul 26, 2026
Adapt "Customize general fields" Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

JabRef/user-documentation#636 · Opened Jun 21, 2026
Add documentation of book cover fetcher Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#608 · Opened Jan 5, 2026
Update cleanup dialogs page to tab-based implementation Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

JabRef/user-documentation#591 · Opened Sep 11, 2025
Update auto-renaming of linked files Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

JabRef/user-documentation#586 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2025
Update import dialog (pagination, choose group)and update ss Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

JabRef/user-documentation#585 · Opened Aug 25, 2025
Update screenshots of "Opening external links" Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

JabRef/user-documentation#582 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 1, 2025
Add Citation Count Field to the documentation Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

JabRef/user-documentation#576 · Opened Jul 12, 2025
Add entry to FAQ how to switch javafx cache dirs Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

JabRef/user-documentation#574 · Opened Jun 19, 2025
Add web import 'Import Entries' group working details Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

JabRef/user-documentation#572 · Opened May 30, 2025
Libre Office - Screenshots and explanation of manual sync vs auto sync Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#566 · Opened May 19, 2025
Update library properties Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

JabRef/user-documentation#564 · Opened May 16, 2025
Adapt Command Line Docs to new PicoCLI verbs Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

JabRef/user-documentation#562 · 1 comment · Opened May 5, 2025
Documentation Changes: 'Create New Empty Entry', 'Create Entry with Type', 'Lookup Identifier', 'Parse Paintext Citation'. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#561 · Opened Apr 28, 2025
Documentation needed: Toggle functionality for journal abbreviation lists Open

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

JabRef/user-documentation#560 · Opened Apr 23, 2025
Update Journal Abbreviation and Cleanup Entries Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#559 · Opened Mar 28, 2025
Update documentation for Search for unlinked local files - Tiny rewrite and replace Swing screenshots. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

JabRef/user-documentation#550 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 16, 2025
Update modifiers Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#542 · Opened Nov 25, 2024
Add action to automatically sync check_links.yml workflow with main Jabref/jabref repo Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

JabRef/user-documentation#534 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2024
Fix dead links in the docs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#533 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2024
Add automated check for "broken-reference" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

JabRef/user-documentation#528 · Opened Oct 16, 2024
Improve documentation for custom exports (how to modify existing ones and add new ones) Open

📍 Assigned 🔔 reminder-sent good first issue

JabRef/user-documentation#518 · 15 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 19, 2024
keep url on download Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

JabRef/user-documentation#515 · Opened Sep 9, 2024
Add group documentation Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#514 · Opened Sep 8, 2024
Replace all screenshots in the documentation with high DPI screenshots Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#510 · Opened Sep 7, 2024
Add CSL Styles to LibreOffice Documentation Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

JabRef/user-documentation#509 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2024
Add how to run GROBID locally Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

JabRef/user-documentation#495 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2024
Change portable mode documentation Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

JabRef/user-documentation#489 · Opened May 29, 2024
Add new command line option jump to entry Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

JabRef/user-documentation#486 · Opened Apr 1, 2024
Add howto on "search expression" Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#485 · Opened Mar 25, 2024
Create documentation for "Extract references from PDF" Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

JabRef/user-documentation#484 · Opened Mar 11, 2024
Add a Linux/openSUSE FAQ about 'zypper install' not working Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

JabRef/user-documentation#479 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 16, 2024
Add list of all Exporters and their id-name (used for cli) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

JabRef/user-documentation#473 · Opened Oct 29, 2023
Create the documentation for different entry types Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

JabRef/user-documentation#472 · Opened Oct 28, 2023
Create the documentation for Preference>Linked Files Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

JabRef/user-documentation#471 · Opened Oct 27, 2023
Add Sublime 3 hint - Full path to subl command on mac, linux windows Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#458 · Opened Jul 31, 2023
Expand the explanation of citation key patterns Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

JabRef/user-documentation#453 · Opened Apr 21, 2023
Refine howto for PDF search Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

JabRef/user-documentation#449 · Opened Apr 5, 2023
Refine howto for linked files Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#448 · Opened Apr 2, 2023
Refine howto for LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

JabRef/user-documentation#445 · Opened Mar 22, 2023
Improve docs: user-documentation/en/collect/jabref-browser-extension.md Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

JabRef/user-documentation#444 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 13, 2023
Add note that the comment field accepts markdown Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

JabRef/user-documentation#434 · Opened Jan 3, 2023
Update description and screenshot for multiline fields in custom entry types dialog Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#433 · Opened Jan 2, 2023
Describe full text search Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#432 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 2, 2023
Add list of supported import formats Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

JabRef/user-documentation#430 · Opened Dec 18, 2022
Add note to indexing Open

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

JabRef/user-documentation#429 · Opened Dec 18, 2022
Different file links resulting from various drag and drop methods (CTRL, Shift, ALT, unmodified) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

JabRef/user-documentation#428 · Opened Dec 16, 2022
Customize export filter: field names with a dash are not interpreted properly Open

good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JabRef/user-documentation#415 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 4, 2022
Group interface: section "Nesting (sub)groups" is confusing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

JabRef/user-documentation#399 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 2, 2022

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