Re: Orgmode for research information management

From: Shrutarshi Basu <shr@basushr.net>
To: Alexander <alejck@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Orgmode for research information management
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:00:24 -0400	[thread overview]
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I've uploaded the script to http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~basus/paperorg
No comments, but it should be fairly self-explanatory. Keeping pdfs, bibtex
and org notes files connected was a problem that I solved with some low-tech
organization. My pdfs, orgs and bibtex keys all have the same format:

<publication><year>-<first author>

That way I can have the script easily pull together the different
information sources because they have the same unique identifier (without
the extension). This approach means that I don't see the paper title or any
other information in the file manager. I basically use Emacs as the
paper-organization interface, which is really nice since I can use tags and
the like to separate out the papers while keeping them in one place if I
need to find them.

I have one such setup for each research project, though in theory I could
just use one large org-file as a complete paper database. But I feel that
would be putting all my eggs in one basket, so that's not something I'd be
comfortable doing.

I would like to get org mode to open the PDF links in an external viewer as
opposed to in Emacs with doc-view as it does now. Any suggestions on how to
do this?

Thanks,
Basu

--
Shrutarshi Basu
Computer Science,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Lafayette College,
The ByteBaker -- http://bytebaker.com

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Alexander <alejck@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

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