Re: org-ref & helm-bibtex notes

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Julian Burgos writes:

> Dear list,
>
> I have been using org-ref for a while, using reftex to insert citations in
> my org documents.  Now I am switching to helm-bibtex, which is pretty
> awesome.  I have a couple of question about the note files.  Org-ref uses
> a single file to keep notes (e.g. notes.org), but helm-bibtex assumes that
> notes are kept in separate files, one per article.  My questions are:
>
> a) Do you have a preference in the single file vs multiple files question?
>  Are advantages/disadvantages?  I tend to prefer the single file option,
> it makes search easy and also I can add TODO items that later I can pull
> out in the agenda view.

I prefer the single file, for the reasons you describe.

> With multiple files this would not be as easy.
> Do you agree?
This is not totally true. You can add your directory of org notes to
your org-agenda-files, e.g.

(setq org-agenda-files '("~/path/to/org-notes"))

and it will add all org files in that directory to your agenda. If you
use helm, it is probably easy to search all of the files too.

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