Manage reference and eprints like we manage media files

update:
Check these out:
http://mekentosj.com/papers/
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/
http://www.sintraworks.com/

We have all kinds of applications now to help us manage media files, picasa(windows), digikam(KDE) and F-stop(Gnome) for digital photos; i-Tunes(windows), amarok(KDE) and Banshee(Gnome) for music files. These applications are quite similar, basically, you have a database at the back storing all the metadata(tags) of all the files, then in the front you have a nice GUI to manage this information, moving, deleting, renaming and tagging. Digital photos will have info like time and place it’s taken, the camera and setting used. Music files on the other hand have info like title, artist, album, year, genre and so on. And as an graduate student, here is my idea, why don’t we have an application to manage the papers(pdf or ps files, maybe other formats too) we are interested, we’ve read. They have metadata too, author, journal/conference, year, title and so on. We have bibtex and other things like Endnote, but we don’t have something as good as what we have for media files. Work is as serious as fun stuffs, right? 🙂

update: Apparently somebody had the same idea before I did. Check it out.
http://freelancepropaganda.com/themp/
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-metadata/2003-October/000189.html