Searching your library

A reference library is only useful if you can find things in it. bibtui filters as you type, across a library of thousands, with no indexing step.

Press s to jump to the search box, type your query, and the table narrows live. Press Enter to move into the results, or Esc to clear the search.

Plain text

Type any words to search across title, author, keywords and cite key at once. Multiple words are combined with AND — every word must match somewhere:

glacier melt

Field prefixes

To search a specific field, prefix a term. Both a short and a long form work:

Prefix	Searches	Example
a: / author:	author	a:smith
t: / title:	title	t:glacier
j: / journal:	journal	j:nature
k: / kw:	keyword	k:ice
y: / year:	year or range	y:2015-2023
u: / url:	URL	u:arxiv
c: / citekey:	cite key	c:smith2020

Combine terms

Prefixes and plain words can be mixed freely. The optional AND keyword reads naturally but changes nothing — terms are always ANDed:

a:smith t:glacier            # Smith, with "glacier" in the title
j:nature AND y:2025          # in Nature, published in 2025
k:ice a:jones                # tagged "ice", authored by Jones
y:2015-2023                  # anything in that year range
c:smith2020                  # an exact cite-key lookup

Find your own papers

a:yourname is a fast way to pull up everything you've authored — handy when assembling a CV or a grant report.

Sorting

Click any column header to sort by it; click again to reverse. The active sort column is marked with ▲ (ascending) or ▼ (descending). Sort by Added to see what's new, by ★ to surface your highest-rated reading, or by Year to scan chronologically.