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Re: [O] Organizing a collection of papers


From: Christian Wittern
Subject: Re: [O] Organizing a collection of papers
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:46:28 +0900
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On 2012-06-30 01:07, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
"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.
Again, if you happen to be on a Mac, you can combine Zotero and BibTeX using the excellent Zot2Bib Firefox extension. This will use the Zotero translators, but can be configured to transfer the citations to a BibTeX file. This can be managed with BibDesk, but is also available within Emacs and can be used for citations in papers written in Org-mode. I have started using this combo about two years ago and am quite pleased with the results.

All the best,

Christian

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Christian Wittern, Kyoto




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