From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: org-ref & helm-bibtex notes Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:25:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56558) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z526P-0004aS-1S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:25:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z526L-0002Lq-1c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:25:16 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-x231.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::231]:34379) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z526K-0002Ll-Rz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:25:12 -0400 Received: by qkeo142 with SMTP id o142so1483850qke.1 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 18:25:12 -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: Julian Burgos Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Julian Burgos writes: > Dear list, > > I have been using org-ref for a while, using reftex to insert citations in > my org documents. Now I am switching to helm-bibtex, which is pretty > awesome. I have a couple of question about the note files. Org-ref uses > a single file to keep notes (e.g. notes.org), but helm-bibtex assumes that > notes are kept in separate files, one per article. My questions are: > > a) Do you have a preference in the single file vs multiple files question? > Are advantages/disadvantages? I tend to prefer the single file option, > it makes search easy and also I can add TODO items that later I can pull > out in the agenda view. I prefer the single file, for the reasons you describe. > With multiple files this would not be as easy. > Do you agree? This is not totally true. You can add your directory of org notes to your org-agenda-files, e.g. (setq org-agenda-files '("~/path/to/org-notes")) and it will add all org files in that directory to your agenda. If you use helm, it is probably easy to search all of the files too. -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu