From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John Wiegley" Subject: Re: Organizing a collection of papers Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:33:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkSuA-0004eT-9W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:34:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkStp-0007ej-5e for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:34:01 -0400 Received: from mail-gg0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:55520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkSto-0007ef-VM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:33:41 -0400 Received: by ggm4 with SMTP id 4so2836477ggm.0 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:33:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Frank's message of "Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:24:09 +0000 (UTC)") 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 >>>>> Frank writes: > I've used org-mode about a year and a half, and I don't think it's the best > application for what you describe. There are several packages available to > do this; the one I've used most often and successfully is Zotero > (zotero.org). This is a browswer plug-in which implements a very nice > database for your papers. At this point, I've indexed 1092 papers (PDFs, > web pages and other materials). In some cases, I have multiple files > attached to each of them. If you happen to have a Mac, the application DEVONthink Pro is simply wonderful for organizing collections like this. I have about 7k PDFs in a financial database, and it's always easy to find what I'm looking for. John