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The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --1741096510-2049685266-1652743247=:20442 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 16 May 2022, S=E9bastien Gendre wrote: > My goals are to: > * List books and articles I want to read > * Track books I have to buy and which I already own > * Track books and articles I have read > * Take notes on books I have read > > The following is what I plan to do. > > The idea is to use an Org-mode heading for each book and the > properties of the books become the ones of the Org-mode heading. The > synopsis of the book can be in the body of the heading. I use Org to track my reading, but keep less information, so a simple tab= le is=20 enough. In 2015 I wrote up how it looked: https://www.miskatonic.org/2015/01/01/reading-diary-in-org/ The basic annual reading list is still the same, but I'm doing a lot more= with=20 the data now, using R to generate charts and other analysis. Your plan looks very much like something I saw on Planet Emacslife=B9 a w= eek or=20 two ago ... but now I can't find it because it scrolled off the bottom. = Maybe=20 someone else here saw it? Or is the one who wrote it? It was someone us= ing=20 properties to store information about the books and then using a column v= iew to=20 display all the information in a table. Could you fit everything into a table? That's simpler than using propert= ies.=20 But if you need lots of bibliographic detail, I guess that's the best sol= ution=20 in Org. If you were willing to look outside Org then I'd recommend Zotero,=B2 whi= ch is=20 designed to keep track of all that; there are Emacs tools to talk to Zote= ro, or=20 you could dump a BibTeX file and use Org's citation system. If I were do= ing=20 what you want to do, I'd keep basic lists in tables in Org, keep notes on= books=20 in structured headings grouped by subject and then chronological order, a= nd use=20 Zotero for bibliographic management. Good luck! Whatever you get started with, it'll be easy to refine and ad= apt in=20 a month or six depending on what you need. Bill =B9 https://planet.emacslife.com/ =B2 https://www.zotero.org/ -- William Denton https://www.miskatonic.org/ Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator. Toronto, Canada --1741096510-2049685266-1652743247=:20442--