From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Christopher W. Ryan" Subject: managing articles in my personal library, and their citational material, using org mode instead of bibtex Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:40:47 -0500 Message-ID: <528AC19F.3000803@binghamton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38057) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViaJE-0008H6-9W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:41:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViaJ6-0004gh-Vm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:40:56 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.225]:8024 helo=cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViaJ6-0004gT-Lz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:40:48 -0500 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 Not sure "citational" is even a word, but hopefully it conveys my meaning! I've been using LaTeX for academic writing and reading for quite some time, with emacs as my editor. I'm pretty familiar with managing a .bib file containing all the references I've collected, and using it in LaTeX \cite commands. I've come to org-mode more recently. I'm trying to imagine how I might use it to manage my "personal library." I have a directory full of pdf files, each a downloaded article. Some articles I reference in papers I write; others I just read and want to keep. I also have a .bib file where I put the citational material for all those articles. Whenever I download an article, I add its entry to my .bib file. I tend to manage this with JabRef because it searches Medline so easily, but I also will edit the .bib file directly when necessary. I like the idea of an org file containing the citational information (authors, title, journal, etc) *plus* links to the pdfs on my hard drive, or on the internet. I could also include my notes about the articles. But what would that org file look like? How do I insert a reference to an article into the org file which contains the article I am writing? I'd be grateful for any explanations, or links to tutorials. Thanks. --Chris Ryan SUNY Upstate Medical University Binghamton, NY