Planned
Podcasts
Subscribe, download episodes, and keep them in the library beside books and audiobooks.
Transcription via Whisper or a similar local or sidecar model.
DecentralizationPlanned
Sharing over Reticulum
Let households and friends exchange library content over the Reticulum Network Stack instead of only HTTPS, OPDS, or email share links. Athenaeum stays the reader and catalog. Reticulum carries the peer path.
Complements OPDS and public download links. Does not replace them.
Peer library links
Connect Athenaeum instances over Reticulum and pull or push titles without a central relay you do not control.
Encrypted transfers
Move book files and catalogs end to end with Reticulum identities. Paths can use internet, radio, or other RNS interfaces.
Mesh-friendly announce
Optional destination announce so peers can find a shareable catalog on the mesh when you choose to publish one.
Go stack
Built on Reticulum-Go, wire-compatible with the Python Reticulum reference.
Listening and feeds
Podcasts, transcription, RSS, and bridges to tools you already run.
Planned
RSS reader
In-app feed reading and aggregation, with FreshRSS as an optional backend.
Planned
Audiobookshelf bridge
Talk to an existing Audiobookshelf server for podcasts or audiobooks instead of re-importing everything.
Library
Deeper support for the files people already keep beside novels and comics. You can open paper PDFs today. This track adds paper-specific metadata, citation workflows, and offline ZIM archives.
Shipped
Research and medical papers
Treat PDFs of journal articles, preprints, and clinical papers as first-class library items, not only as generic books.
DOI, arXiv, and PubMed metadata lookup. Citation fields (authors, journal, year, abstract). BibTeX import and export.
Planned
ZIM / Kiwix archives
Browse offline OpenZIM files (Wikipedia and other Kiwix dumps) in the library beside books and papers.
Index and serve .zim archives. Article search and in-app reading without a separate Kiwix install.
Planned
Desktop and mobile apps
Ship Athenaeum as an installable library tool on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android with Wails v3, not only as a browser tab against a daemon.
Same Go library and UI as the server. Desktop first. Mobile follows as Wails v3 mobile support matures.
AI features
All AI features are opt-in. Defaults prefer local options (Ollama, LM Studio) before any cloud or OpenAI-compatible endpoint. See the privacy policy.
Planned
Research assistance and chat
Ask questions about books and papers in your library. Opt-in only. Off until you turn it on.
Local backends first: Ollama and LM Studio. Cloud and other OpenAI-compatible endpoints when you configure them.
Planned
AI tagging and metadata
Suggest tags, summaries, and metadata fill-ins for titles that lack clean catalog data. Opt-in. Review before apply.
Defaults prefer a local model. Nothing leaves your machine unless you point Athenaeum at a remote API.
Platform
Hooks for third-party code and a saner path to stay current.
Planned
Extensions
Load add-ons as WASM modules or native Go plugins for scrapers, importers, and custom jobs.
Planned
Update system
Check for releases from the UI or CLI, show notes, and apply or stage binary upgrades safely.
What ships today
EPUB, PDF, comics, audiobooks, Kokoro narration, OPDS, and multi-user auth ship today.