Re: [O] Organizing a collection of papers

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> 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