From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: emacs & org mode for scholars questions Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:04:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <55dbff57.2491420a.591b6.5304@mx.google.com> <87si777604.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <877foil7lr.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87lhcyjojz.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUaNn-0003lL-9T for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:04:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUaNi-0001Tw-AH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:04:51 -0400 Received: from mail-qg0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c04::230]:33219) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUaNi-0001Tm-3Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:04:46 -0400 Received: by qgeh99 with SMTP id h99so66119213qge.0 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 06:04:45 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <87lhcyjojz.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> 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: Eric S Fraga Cc: Erik Hetzner , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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! -- 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