John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>
> One thing I really like to use orgmode for is research. Lately,
> there's a mass of stuff on-line that I've been reading though and am
> about to start reading through a series of articles and had the idea
> to yank them into org for "inline notes."
>
> My current experiment has been:
> - wget the website page
> - run a custom script of simple sed stuff to get the major stuff
> converted (<i> & </i> -> /, &quote; -> ", etc.)
> - turn things into headlines where applicable
> - manually tweak the rest
>
> What I'd like to do is find some way to take notes in the article and
> would like some suggestions from anyone who's done this. On one hand,
> I see the idea of keeping a separate headline for notes, and for a
> series of articles, my file might look like this:
> ,---
> | * Article 1
> | ** Notes on article 1
> | * Article 2
> | ** Notes on article 2
> `---
>
> One advantage to this is that I could very easily add :noexport: to my
> notes and print off a hard copy of the article if I want it, and it
> would also be easy to tag my notes :notes: and then replace-string to
> turn the Article :export: into :noexport: and :notes: into :export:.
> Then I'd have an easy to print copy of my notes for each article.
>
> On the other hand, I like quoting when I use notes, and could see it
> as advantageous to have something like:
> ,---
> | * Article 1
> | It goes along and says x, y, and z.
> | --- Me: that's interesting and here are my thoughts.
> |
> | It continues along saying all kinds of other things and my comments
> are interjected whenever I want.
> `---
>
> I think that might be more useful for studying things later, as I get
> to see an "annotated" version with my thoughts at the time I read it.
> What it *doesn't* allow for is the easy printing of both the article
> and the notes separately if I want.
>
> Would someone suggest a way that I might be able to have the best of
> both worlds? Some of my own not-at-all-hashed-out-ideas included:
> - using footnotes since org has easy ways to jump from one to another,
> but this would be tough when it came to actual footnotes, which there
> will definitely be plenty of.
>
> - highlighting the text I want to quote and then using refile somehow
> to send it off to my notes section with my comments. This would be
> cool if I could, at the same time, add an org-mode link to and from
> the notes and original section, but also if I could turn that link off
> when I export to PDF so I don't have hypertext to a non-existent link
> if I don't export my notes as well.
>
> Part of the reason that keeping notes/article separate is that I have
> others interested in the articles and, if I need to send them a copy,
> I want to get my junk out of there and have the original. I suppose I
> could just keep two copies, though?
>
> I think this idea could be useful to others and actually wouldn't
> doubt if someone has an awesome setup for something like this already.
>
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
> John
>
>

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Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/