From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Subject: Re: Organizing a collection of papers Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:24:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35206) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkQ2H-0004ab-VS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:30:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkQ2G-00014K-3E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:30:13 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58997) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkQ2F-000149-Sn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:30:12 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SkQ27-0001c9-Ek for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:30:03 +0200 Received: from 69-12-170-2.dedicated.static.sonic.net ([69.12.170.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:30:03 +0200 Received: from fam by 69-12-170-2.dedicated.static.sonic.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:30:03 +0200 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 Victor Miller gmail.com> writes: > > I've just started using org-mode, and so far find it quite > useful. I have a very large collection of technical papers in a > directory tree, and I'd like to go through them and index them > through org-mode. What I'd like is to have a way of going through > them and look at the unannotated ones, and annotate them one by > one. I imagine doing this by first making up a file of links like > [[xxx.pdf][not done yet]], and then being presented with the not > done ones, glancing at them and deciding how what annotations to > put in. In addition I'd like to add tags. What I'd really like is > to be able to make up new tags on the fly. Has anyone done > anything like this in org-mode? 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. Zotero helps me manage the PDFs I have already, and makes it non unusual for me to add a few dozen to my collection, all nicely cross-referenced and ready for citations using Word or Latex. Once you realize how easy it is to get from a google scholar result to another PDF in your database, and the database entry is completely ready to support insertion as a citation, as a footnote or end-note,... this gets very addictive. I can't imagine any org-mode package accelerating the process of finding, displaying, indexing and citing sources as much as Zotero does for me.