diff --git a/writing/.config/papis/config b/writing/.config/papis/config
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+[settings]
+#opentool = zathura
+#picktool = fzf
+default-library = master
+file-browser = vifm
+ref-format = {doc[author_list][0][surname]}{doc[year]}
+
+# edit info.yaml as new papers are added
+add-edit = True
+add-folder-name = {doc[ref]}-{doc[title]}
+add-file-name = {doc[author_list][0][family]}{doc[year]}
+header-format-file = ~/.config/papis/headerformat
+extra-bibtex-keys = ["tags", "readstatus"]
+
+database-backend = whoosh
+whoosh-schema-fields = ["doi", "ref", "author", "year", "title", "publisher", "tags", "readstatus", "date", "isbn", "type", "keyword", "qualityassured"]
+# to make whoosh list everything by default
+default-query-string = *
+
+notes-name = notes.qmd
+notes-template = {doc[author_list][0][family]}{doc[year]}--{doc[title]}
+
+mark-opener = zathura -P {mark[value]}
+
+[tui]
+editmore = vi
+
+[master]
+dir = ~/documents/library
+
+[academia]
+dir = ~/documents/library/academia
+
+[cs]
+dir = ~/documents/library/cs
diff --git a/writing/.config/papis/headerformat b/writing/.config/papis/headerformat
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+{doc.html_escape[title]}
+<ansigreen>{doc.html_escape[author]}</ansigreen>
+<ansiblue>({doc.html_escape[year]})</ansiblue> [<ansiyellow>{doc.html_escape[tags]}</ansiyellow>] [<ansired>{doc.html_escape[readstatus]}</ansired>]
diff --git a/writing/.config/papis/scripts/papis-reload b/writing/.config/papis/scripts/papis-reload
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# papis-short-help: Manually rebuild cache for all libraries
+#
+# This tiny script updates all libraries by rebuilding their caches.
+# Useful to invoke after manual edits in one of your library folders
+# so you don't have to think about which library you changed stuff in
+# and just get everything updated. Might take a little time but
+# should generally be a quick process (even with 1000s of entries).
+
+import papis.api
+
+libs = papis.api.get_libraries()
+
+for lib in libs:
+    papis.api.clear_lib_cache(lib)
+    papis.api.get_all_documents_in_lib()
diff --git a/writing/.config/papis/scripts/papis-show b/writing/.config/papis/scripts/papis-show
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# papis-short-help: Display pretty human-readable document overview
+#
+# TODO strip {} from bibtex entries to really pretty print
+
+papis -l "${PAPIS_LIB}" list --format "{doc[author]} ({doc[year]}). {doc[title]}." "$@"