Re: [O] Organizing a collection of papers

[Thomas S. Dye]

"John Wiegley" <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> Frank  <address@hidden> 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
>
>
I work in Org mode and LaTeX.  Ebib is integrated with both of them.
I follow an Org mode link or a LaTeX citation to the BibTeX entry in
Ebib, then open the pdf from Ebib using a link stored in the BibTeX
file.  I think Ebib is a splendid tool in this situation.

All the best,
Tom

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