Re: Orgmode for research information management

From: Alexander <alejck@gmail.com>
To: Greg Newman <greg@20seven.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Shrutarshi Basu <shr@basushr.net>
Subject: Re: Orgmode for research information management
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:27:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e177a690906250827r404b40ecm713df77ba92fff6c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71454fac0906250520s2959fcna213318bc526f242@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I've recently started using org-mode to organize reading notes and to
write papers, and I'd be interested in this script too. One thing that
I have a little trouble with is connecting these three pieces of
information for each reference: bibtex key, pdf file with actual
article, and org file with notes.

Best,

Alexander

On 6/25/09, Greg Newman <greg@20seven.org> wrote:
> Hey Basu.  I'd love to see this python script.  I'm a complete n00b with
> latex so i'm trying to get up to speed on it fast; however all my research
> on this has led me to believe this is the perfect setup and your description
> of your flow is confirming it more.
> Thanks,
>
>
> *Greg Newman*
>
> http://20seven.org
>
> twitter: 20seven
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Shrutarshi Basu <shr@basushr.net> wrote:
>
>> I just started using orgmode today to organize the papers that I'm
>> collecting for my own research. The way I work is a bit complicated, but I
>> like it. I have all my PDFs in a single directory and my notes in a
>> separate
>> directory. These notes are extensive outlines and notes for each paper.
>> Corresponding files are named the same in each directory to make it easy
>> to
>> relate the paper to the notes. I also have a bibtex file with citation
>> info
>> for each file. I then run a Python script over the two directories and the
>> bibtex file which generates an org file containing links to the PDF and
>> notes and some of the bibtex data (authors and publication). This file is
>> my
>> main interface to all my research info. I use Org-mode tags to do some
>> simple categorization and also store short notes. If you like, I could
>> give
>> you my Python script. Some of the file paths are hard coded in, but
>> they're
>> easy to change. You can also view PDFs directly in Emacs.
>>
>> Basu
>>
>> --
>> Shrutarshi Basu
>> Computer Science,
>> Electrical and Computer Engineering,
>> Lafayette College,
>> The ByteBaker -- http://bytebaker.com
>>
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