Re: Org-Mode and References

[Vidianos Giannitsis]

Hello Christopher and Jean,

Gathering references using only Emacs and no external tools is a tricky 
subject that I would be interested to hear more about. I currently use 
Zotero to gather the references as it exports a bib file I can then play 
with from Emacs and it places the pdfs in the correct place 
automatically making the process seamless.

I know there have in the past been attempts to fully Emacs-ify this. I 
know org-ref has some tools for this and another tool I have used for 
this is Zotra (https://github.com/mpedramfar/zotra). But I have 
personally not been able to get a seamless enough workflow for gathering 
references only from Emacs, so I believe a talk on this topic would be 
great.

On the general topic of managing literature, I did a talk about it last 
year (https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/science/) which I would say was 
pretty in-depth on the topic. You might be interested in it if you 
haven't seen it. But collecting the references was the part I focused on 
the least as its not fully Emacsified.

In any case, the subject interests me a lot so more work on it would be 
lovely to see,

Best regards,

Vidianos Giannitsis

On 15/7/23 04:16, l@tlo wrote:
> Christopher,
>
> Thank you very much. Yeah, obviously copy/pasting Zotero output is a bit 
> impractical, but I'm almost done with my thesis so that will be good enough for 
> the coming weeks, but I'm personally willing to hear more about your system ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> JC
>
> > On Jul 15, 2023, at 1:47, Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > Okay, that sounds good. I'll wait a week and then make a formal talk submission 
> > depending on what I hear on the list.
> >
> > My approach is a bit more sophisticated than simply copy-and-paste, since it 
> > has a few custom interactive functions involved, and it uses a few basic 
> > org-mode features (like IDs, tagging, and attachments). But the actual workflow 
> > is quick and simple. I've come across much more sophisticated approaches to 
> > this from other Emacs users, but they looked too complicated for my needs.
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Howard