Papers Library View: Organizing and Customizing Your Library

Papers offers several ways to organize and customize your library view to suit your workflow.

To get started, right-click on any column heading in your library. A menu will appear showing all available viewing options.

Any option you toggle on will appear as a column in your library view.
Tip: You can drag column headings to reorder them at any time. Just look for the move cursor icon.

Regardless of which options you choose to display, you can mark an article as a favorite by right-clicking the reference and selecting “Add Flag.”

This will add a small flag icon to the reference, visible in your library as long as the “Flag” column is enabled.

You can also apply color labels by enabling the “Color Label” column in your view options. Then, hover over that column in the reference row you want to label. A circle outline will appear—click it to choose and apply a color.

Similarly, to give a reference a star rating, enable the “Rating” column. Hovering over this column for any reference will display a 5-star scale, allowing you to assign a rating.

You can also mark any reference in your library as “read” or “unread” by right-clicking over the reference and looking for the “mark as read” and “mark as unread” options

Note that references which are unread will appear bold in the Papers library view.

By taking advantage of these customizable options, you can tailor your Papers library view to better fit your research and reading habits. Whether you’re flagging key papers, adding color-coded labels, or rating your references, these tools help keep your library organized and easy