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From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs & org mode for scholars questions
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:04:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2mvxeb3pw.fsf@andrew.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhcyjojz.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>


Eric S Fraga writes:

> On Wednesday, 26 Aug 2015 at 06:39, John Kitchin wrote:
>> Interesting. I could see some interesting extensions to it. I use
>> button-lock to alert me to interesting (to me) text in my buffers a lot,
>> which is a little less intrusive. For example, any names in my
>
> Interesting!  Indeed it would be interesting to tie these two concepts
> together, sort of an automatic hyper-text facility with multiple
> out-going links...

That is exactly what my code does, sometimes even with context-specific
links, e.g. if a contact has a URL property, you get an open url
action.

>
>> When you say trawled, is this with some indexing tool, or something you
>> wrote?
>
> The remembrance-agent package in Debian includes the tools for trawling
> through text files and creating the databases (ra-index) the emacs tool
> requires (using ra-retrieve).

I see. one day I will think about doing something like this with the
swish-e index (or recoll, etc...) work I did this past summer. Document
similarity has been on my mind, beyond just keywords (which I am not
good at using consistently) for a few applications. Mostly similar
bibtex entries I already have, similar entries in an RSS feed, etc...

>
> I run the index operation using crontab weekly.  Weekly is sufficient
> for my needs as the content is not that dynamic and it is the old
> content that I need help remembering ;-)

Agreed!

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-26 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-25  5:38 emacs & org mode for scholars questions Erik Hetzner
2015-08-25 13:51 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-25 15:04   ` Matt Price
2015-08-25 15:16   ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-25 20:18     ` John Kitchin
2015-08-26  9:30       ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-26 10:39         ` John Kitchin
2015-08-26 11:07           ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-26 13:04             ` John Kitchin [this message]
2015-08-25 16:10   ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-26 13:06     ` John Kitchin
2015-08-27  5:21   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-27 10:31     ` John Kitchin
2015-08-25 16:48 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-08-25 17:23   ` Eric S Fraga
2015-09-02  4:03 ` Erik Hetzner
2015-09-02 10:40   ` John Kitchin
2015-09-03  2:00     ` Erik Hetzner
2015-09-05  0:29       ` John Kitchin
2015-09-05 14:08         ` Thierry Banel
2015-09-04  6:44     ` Christian Wittern
2015-09-04  7:45       ` Rasmus
2015-09-02 11:00   ` Rasmus
2015-09-02 12:33     ` Xebar Saram
2015-09-02 12:51       ` Rasmus
2015-09-02 13:17         ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-02 14:53     ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-09-03  2:10     ` Erik Hetzner

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