From: Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using orgmode to take "inline notes" for research
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:10:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9BE79A.5010402@ccbr.umn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipus12dc.fsf@gmail.com>
If you export to HTML, you should be able to export your notes with a CSS class
to style your notes as differently from the text as you like.
On 04/05/2011 10:32 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Interesting use case, I definitely see the utility. I think that blocks
> may be an appropriate solution, for example if you enclose your notes in
> "notes" blocks, then it should be easy to control whether or not they
> are exported...
>
> Using the following code, you can control whether notes enclosed in
> "notes" blcks will be exported by changing the value of the
> *export-my-notes* variable, when it is nil your notes will not be
> exported, when t they will be exported as quoted text.
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (defvar *export-my-notes* nil)
>
> (defun org-exp-block-process-notes (body&rest headers)
> (if *export-my-notes*
> (format "\n#+begin_quote\n%s\n#+end_quote\n" body)
> ""))
>
> (org-export-blocks-add-block '(notes org-exp-block-process-notes nil))
> #+end_src
>
> Hope this Helps -- Eric
>
> This works for me with the attached Org-mode file.
>
>
>
>
>
> John Hendy<jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> One thing I really like to use orgmode for is research. Lately,
>> there's a mass of stuff on-line that I've been reading though and am
>> about to start reading through a series of articles and had the idea
>> to yank them into org for "inline notes."
>>
>> My current experiment has been:
>> - wget the website page
>> - run a custom script of simple sed stuff to get the major stuff
>> converted (<i> & </i> -> /,"e; -> ", etc.)
>> - turn things into headlines where applicable
>> - manually tweak the rest
>>
>> What I'd like to do is find some way to take notes in the article and
>> would like some suggestions from anyone who's done this. On one hand,
>> I see the idea of keeping a separate headline for notes, and for a
>> series of articles, my file might look like this:
>> ,---
>> | * Article 1
>> | ** Notes on article 1
>> | * Article 2
>> | ** Notes on article 2
>> `---
>>
>> One advantage to this is that I could very easily add :noexport: to my
>> notes and print off a hard copy of the article if I want it, and it
>> would also be easy to tag my notes :notes: and then replace-string to
>> turn the Article :export: into :noexport: and :notes: into :export:.
>> Then I'd have an easy to print copy of my notes for each article.
>>
>> On the other hand, I like quoting when I use notes, and could see it
>> as advantageous to have something like:
>> ,---
>> | * Article 1
>> | It goes along and says x, y, and z.
>> | --- Me: that's interesting and here are my thoughts.
>> |
>> | It continues along saying all kinds of other things and my comments
>> are interjected whenever I want.
>> `---
>>
>> I think that might be more useful for studying things later, as I get
>> to see an "annotated" version with my thoughts at the time I read it.
>> What it *doesn't* allow for is the easy printing of both the article
>> and the notes separately if I want.
>>
>> Would someone suggest a way that I might be able to have the best of
>> both worlds? Some of my own not-at-all-hashed-out-ideas included:
>> - using footnotes since org has easy ways to jump from one to another,
>> but this would be tough when it came to actual footnotes, which there
>> will definitely be plenty of.
>>
>> - highlighting the text I want to quote and then using refile somehow
>> to send it off to my notes section with my comments. This would be
>> cool if I could, at the same time, add an org-mode link to and from
>> the notes and original section, but also if I could turn that link off
>> when I export to PDF so I don't have hypertext to a non-existent link
>> if I don't export my notes as well.
>>
>> Part of the reason that keeping notes/article separate is that I have
>> others interested in the articles and, if I need to send them a copy,
>> I want to get my junk out of there and have the original. I suppose I
>> could just keep two copies, though?
>>
>> I think this idea could be useful to others and actually wouldn't
>> doubt if someone has an awesome setup for something like this already.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions!
>> John
>>
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-06 4:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-06 2:02 Using orgmode to take "inline notes" for research John Hendy
2011-04-06 3:21 ` Jeff Horn
2011-04-06 10:33 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-04-06 16:33 ` John Hendy
2011-04-06 16:47 ` John Hendy
2011-04-06 17:27 ` Samuel Wales
2011-04-06 18:08 ` John Hendy
2011-04-06 18:16 ` Samuel Wales
2011-04-06 18:16 ` John Hendy
2011-04-06 19:11 ` Mark Elston
2011-04-07 4:19 ` Jeff Horn
2011-04-07 9:20 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-04-07 15:26 ` John Hendy
2011-04-07 15:33 ` Jeff Horn
2011-04-07 15:48 ` John Hendy
2011-04-08 20:53 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-04-12 16:30 ` John Hendy
2011-04-12 16:39 ` John Hendy
2011-04-12 17:57 ` John Hendy
2011-04-25 19:51 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-04-26 13:07 ` John Hendy
2011-04-12 18:20 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-04-12 18:56 ` John Hendy
2011-04-17 23:36 ` Rasmus
2011-04-20 17:46 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-04-16 7:24 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-04-07 12:39 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-04-06 3:32 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-06 4:10 ` Erik Iverson [this message]
2011-04-06 5:02 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-06 16:16 ` John Hendy
2011-04-07 5:33 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-04-07 16:10 ` John Hendy
2011-04-08 18:18 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-04-08 20:08 ` John Hendy
2011-04-06 16:11 ` John Hendy
2011-04-06 16:09 ` John Hendy
2011-04-06 16:42 ` Eric Schulte
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2011-04-06 3:52 Rustom Mody
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