Re: more helm-bibtex/org-ref questions

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

You could have multiple file fields I suppose, and adapt [1] to give you
a choice of which one to open.

Personally, I have one pdf per bibtex entry, named by the key of the
entry, in a directory called bibtex-pdfs somewhere defined by
org-ref-pdf-directory. There are ~1300 pdfs in there now. I always
access them through helm bibtex.

admittedly, I don't have the SI or other stuff around usually. I don't
use bibtex to keep track of the directories where I write manuscripts
either.

You could always make links to these other things in the associated
notes entry. or put org-links in a bibtex field, and then you can open
them with C-c o (if you setup links to work everywhere). That way,
opening the pdf is easy, and opening the other things is just opening
the entry and running the link open command.

Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes:

> Dear All,
>
> (I am not sure this is the appropriate place, but this is neither a bug
> report nor an feature request about helm-bibtex or org-ref, but a question
> from ignorance and I am learning quite a bit from the other helm-bibtex
> questions).
>
>
> How do people deal with multiple files that are logically associated to an
> entry?
>
>
> I've been used to keeping the main file, supplementary materials,
> associated code, etc, in a directory per entry. This kind of modus operandi
> is something I adopted (fell into?)  easily with Zotero and Mendeley. But I
> am not sure that this is the best way to proceed.
>
>
> If I end up with multiple files per directory, helm-bibtex-find-pdf[1]
> cannot know which one I want to open. I could keep the main file in the
> general directory, so it is found directly by helm-bibtex-find-pdf and
> specify other files (of secondary usage) in the "file" field (and maybe
> open them via ebib when/if needed)?  But this does not seem
> elegant. Another is to have an entry per file, with unique key, but this
> does not seem right.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> R.
>
>
> [1] Thanks to Titus' help
> (https://github.com/tmalsburg/helm-bibtex/issues/53), opening a PDF that is
> given in the "file" field with the directory name is now within my reach.

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