You might look into the lentic package. It might be possible to view a bib
file in two views, one in Bibtex mode for the entries, and one in org-mode
for the comments. In the bibtex view, the org narrative would be in comment
form, and in the org view the bibtex entries would be in source blocks.

I have not used lentic extensively, and haven't had much luck lately using
it but it seems to be made for the kind of purpose you describe.



John

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On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 4:00 PM, <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:

> My need is for a simple work flow/usage of Orgmode to annotate and
> organize existing BibTex *.bib files.  I have mentioned on this list
> that I had found Cb2Bib to work extremely well for, so to speak,
> harvesting references from Google Scholar.  In fact, Pere Constans,
> developer of Cb2Bib, recently helped me to streamline this usage to
> allow the use of the "Annotation" field, and I have also worked out a
> way to output and print a pdf with this field using Cb2Bib's bib2pdf
> utility.  I use this as a basis for library research.
>
> However, I have a wide range of such references in each file, over
> dozens of topics, and I would like to incorporate by some means an
> ability to include org-mode subheadings with maybe tags, so enable the
> citations to be more easily sorted.
>
> I do not need to have automatic selection for a bibliography in the
> output, or automatic insertion of citations, at this point.
>
> I have asked this question on this list, and studied from time to time
> the solutions for using org-mode with bibtex, and visa-versa.  I don't
> really have the time or inclination to learn  these.
>
> I remember  that  in BibTeX documentation, was mention that almost
> anything outside of the individual records could serve as a comment.
> This is more or less what I have in mind.
>
> I would appreciate hearing from anyone who use such a simple approach.
> It would be most convenient if it were not necessary to change the
> extension of the *.bib files; I used to do this, but the extra steps
> for each reference was exhausting.
>
> Thank you for any ideas,
>
> Alan Davis
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