On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com> wrote:

> Another Zotero + org user here.  Right now I do what Christian does: export
> Zotero to slightly tweaked <http://github.com/commonman/zotero-bibtex-sb>BibTeX, and insert with RefTeX's amazingly cool reference-insertion
> interface (another genius piece of work by Carsten).

i'm getting nearly convinced to go this route.  May I ask, do you use reftex
from within org?  I'm not quite sure on how that would wok (but also I'm not
that familiar w/ the latex parts of the documentation...).


> I can think of two profitable ways to make inserting references from one's
> Zotero database into org-mode notes better, and one further way that
> org-mode could be more tightly linked with Zotero.
>
> 1)  A utility (presumably part firefox plugin) which keeps a BibTeX file in
> sync with one of Zotero's collections.
>
sounds great.


> 2)  a org-mode-specific plain-text citation mechanism, analogous to BibTeX,
> but useful for both LaTeX and non-LaTeX exports.  It would presumably have a
> CSL backend, and work the way that citeproc-hs<http://code.haskell.org/citeproc-hs/>works for pandoc.  Presumably it could also use a RefTeX-like interface for
> citation insertion.
>
yes, this would be the very best thing.

>
> 3) Easier ways to take reading notes (in org) on items in the Zotero
> database, with two way linking.  (Thanks already for the tips in this
> thread.)
>
ditto!  that would be super.
wish i were in a position to createthese tools myself.
matt