From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: BernardH Subject: Re: Organizing a collection of papers Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 08:41:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49508) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbSrc-0004gO-Kj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:42:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbSrU-0001u4-O1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:42:12 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57181) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbSrU-0001sQ-Gx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:42:04 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SbSrI-0001rb-AC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:41:52 +0200 Received: from isep1.paris.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.113.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:41:52 +0200 Received: from gmane.emacs.orgmode by isep1.paris.pck.nerim.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:41:52 +0200 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 Victor Miller gmail.com> writes: > > I've just started using org-mode, and so far find it quite > useful. I have a very large collection of technical papers in a > directory tree, and I'd like to go through them and index them > through org-mode. What I'd like is to have a way of going through > them and look at the unannotated ones, and annotate them one by > one. I imagine doing this by first making up a file of links like > [[xxx.pdf][not done yet]], and then being presented with the not > done ones, glancing at them and deciding how what annotations to > put in. In addition I'd like to add tags. What I'd really like is > to be able to make up new tags on the fly. Has anyone done > anything like this in org-mode? > > Victor > > Hi, For organizing papers, I've recently found [[http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/weblog/2012/03/23/how-to-manage-and-export-bibliographic-notesrefs-in-org-mode/][an interesting blog post]]. Actually doing it is still on my TODO list unfortunately. However, the use-case seems common enough amongst orgmode users that if something is recognized as best-practice, maybe an entry in [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/][the worg tutorials section]] would be warranted. Best Regards, B.