From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Wittern Subject: Re: Organizing a collection of papers Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:46:28 +0900 Message-ID: <4FF240E4.5030600@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47840) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SlrGI-0001dT-4A for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:46:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SlrGF-0006AR-C2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:46:37 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:41280) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SlrGF-00066T-2D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:46:35 -0400 Received: by pbbrp2 with SMTP id rp2so9344845pbb.0 for ; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:46:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 2012-06-30 01:07, Thomas S. Dye wrote: > "John Wiegley" writes: > >>>>>>> Frank writes: >>> I've used org-mode about a year and a half, and I don't think it's the best >>> application for what you describe. There are several packages available to >>> do this; the one I've used most often and successfully is Zotero >>> (zotero.org). This is a browswer plug-in which implements a very nice >>> database for your papers. At this point, I've indexed 1092 papers (PDFs, >>> web pages and other materials). In some cases, I have multiple files >>> attached to each of them. >> If you happen to have a Mac, the application DEVONthink Pro is simply >> wonderful for organizing collections like this. I have about 7k PDFs in a >> financial database, and it's always easy to find what I'm looking for. >> >> John >> >> > I work in Org mode and LaTeX. Ebib is integrated with both of them. > I follow an Org mode link or a LaTeX citation to the BibTeX entry in > Ebib, then open the pdf from Ebib using a link stored in the BibTeX > file. I think Ebib is a splendid tool in this situation. Again, if you happen to be on a Mac, you can combine Zotero and BibTeX using the excellent Zot2Bib Firefox extension. This will use the Zotero translators, but can be configured to transfer the citations to a BibTeX file. This can be managed with BibDesk, but is also available within Emacs and can be used for citations in papers written in Org-mode. I have started using this combo about two years ago and am quite pleased with the results. All the best, Christian -- Christian Wittern, Kyoto