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

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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