From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Burtzlaff Subject: Re: Workflow for attaching, linking, and saving bibtex links together with notes? Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:31:56 +0200 Message-ID: <20090812093156.75cd1703.andy13@gmx.net> References: <7bef1f890908111944t3cfef53cyf1fd1e2819e7c387@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mb9xu-0003gK-R6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:17:50 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mb9xq-0003f0-9Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:17:50 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44299 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mb9xp-0003en-Oz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:17:45 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:38500) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mb9xo-0008Bm-Rh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:17:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890908111944t3cfef53cyf1fd1e2819e7c387@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Alan E. Davis" Cc: org-mode The use case is very similar to the one I'm starting to get comfortable with, so here is my vision: Fireforg could download the pdf , use Zotero's translators to extract bibliography information and other metadata from a site, and send that and the file's path to org. There, this information becomes a heading with properties, like this: * [[][]] <General note> :PROPERTIES: :ID: <unique id> :CUSTOM_ID: <human readable id, possibly generated from authors and year> :BIB_TYPE: <article, ...> :BIB_AUTHORS: ... :BIB_TITLE: ... ... :URL: ... :END: All further notes go into that subtree. A lisp function generates bibtex entries from these properties for headings, optionally filtered by tag, property, occurrence of links to it in a certain file, etc. That way, all information is inside the org file and the entry has a unique id throughout. In search results fireforg will mark those entries already imported to your org files and let's you visit all notes about them. There are some hurdles to take, though, but it's not overly complicated. Anyone willing to join in, to make this reality? Andreas P.S. Didn't check whether such an idea came up before on the list. PP.S There was a similar question in this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/14756/