Add new project idea (#8)

Author: koppor

_posts/2025-12-27-generic-preferences.md

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+title: More Generic Preferences
+author: jabref
+categories: ["gsoc2026"]
+tags: ["project-idea", "size-large"]
+---
+
+JabRef's strength is that everything is configurable.
+There are more than 100 parameters to tweak.
+This is loved and hated by users at the same way.
+
+Two major pain points exist.
+
+1. In the BibTeX (.bib) file, the preferences are stored using a custom format.
+2. Some preferences can be configured for each Bib file, but not all.
+
+In this project, two things should be tackled:
+
+1. Rewrite preferences storage in the BibTeX file to JSON [#10371](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/10371)
+2. Offer preferences to be configured in the library. [#8701](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/8701)
+
+Note that 2 does NOT mean that all preferences should be stored in the library; only the ones the user wants to store.
+
+**Possible Mentors:**
+
+[@koppor](https://github.com/koppor), [@calixtus](https://github.com/calixtus)
+
+**Project size:**
+
+350h (large)