Get a list of uncited entries in a BibTeX file

Question

Suppose I have a rather large BibTeX bibliography file that contains both works cited in a paper as well as works I saved to my bibliography without actually citing them in my paper.

Is there a way to only print those entries that are not yet cited in the paper, say, as a reminder that I wanted to include them at some point in my thesis?

This might seem somewhat counter-intuitive, but it has to do with the fact that I use an external tool for library management that creates a BibTeX file with all the saved entries, regardless of whether they are actually cited in my paper.

I'm using biblatex and the biber backend to create my bibliography.

Answer 1

To print a list of references that have not been cited you can create a check that filters out the cited one (you have to enable the citetracker feature, e.g., \usepackage[citetracker=true]{biblatex}).

The check can be created as follows

\defbibcheck{uncited}{
  \ifciteseen
    {\skipentry}
    {}
}

and then put a \nocite{*} in the document, and use

\printbiblipgraphy[check=uncited]

PS I think this has been asked before, but I was not able to locate it.