[tech] Reference Document Management Software?

[siderea]

I want a thing that I think should surely exist, but I can't find it.

I want a LAMP-stack (or similar) web app that's open source, that I run on my own server,
that I can use as a proxy server in any browser,

that gives me some sort of "save this" button (via injection to the HTML or better a bookmarklet),

that tells the app to save a copy of what it just proxy-served me into my saved files database,

which can handle documents that are HTML pages and PDF (and PPT and DOC and JPG and PNG and GIF and little pink ponies, while asking for the moon),

and which has a web interface with a basic reference-style metadata thingy, such that I can capture (manually entered, if necessary!) intrinsic document metadata (URL where I found it, authors, date, publication/journal) and annotative metadata (my own tags, "folder" assignments, summary, other comments),

and supports full-text search of HTML and text-based PDFs.

Put another way, I want a caching bookmark manager that supports a reference manager interface and functions as a proxy so it seamlessly has my authentication bits.

I have a caching bookmark manager, but it doesn't do PDF (or anything other than HTML) and doesn't manage references, and there's apparently reference manager software that does PDFs (but not HTML) and doesn't function as a proxy unless you go through a hosted solution on someone else's server.

And there are all these "reference manager" web applications which live on someone else's server, which is unacceptable. There are allegedly reference managers for the desktop that at least do PDF, but none of them work for an OS as old as I am on (also your references are stuck on your computer).

These are the workflows I want it to support: (1) I roam around the internet, reading things, and clicking "save to my library", which captures what page or document I'm on and prompts me with a bunch of form fields to add additional info. (2) I can go to the main URL of my library, authenticate, and then access a web app that is basically a reference manager that supports projects and tagging, allowing me to call up a list of all the docs/urls/refs I classified to a certain thing. (3) extra credit: I can go to my library, authenticate, then do a full text search of my documents. Honestly, basic grep would be fine.

Does anybody know if the thing I want (need) exists?

ETA: User review of the day:

ander1122 Posted 09/27/2012
★★★★★
I seldom had to create any academic literature in my career as a designer of miniature golf courses. Then I tried this app, and it was so fantastic that I changed my entire career course just so I could use it. That's how good it is. I suppose it'd be irresponsible of me not to warn you that, if you currently aren't called upon to prepare academic literature, and you're not prepared to change careers, you'd best avoid this app, despite its wonderfulness. Therefore, I shall: Please reread the preceding part of this paragraph, beginning with "...if you currently aren't called upon..." Anyway, this app is great. This concludes my review. Feel free to add your own citations.

Duly noted. Since I've already succumbed to a tawdry researcher lifestyle, supporting my academic journal article habit by selling my intellect on internet streetcorners, I suppose I have nothing let to lose.

Comments

[squirrelitude]

Oh, hmm... I was sure it was syncing the metadata too, the same way it does with their main site. :-/ I don't know if it has changed, either direction. It has been a while since I looked into it.