Re: Org-Mode and References

[Sacha Chua]

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

Hello, Christopher!

> I developed my own workflow for gathering up references to books, Web
> articles, etc. on various subjects of interest to me. I thought maybe
> that could be a short talk. But my knowledge of Org-Mode is rather
> basic, and my needs are simple, so maybe it would be better to learn
> this from somebody who was an academic or professional researcher.
...
> At a glance, these seem like good tools (Zotero and Papis). I know for
> sure that what I'm doing would not be useful for automatically
> outputting scholarly references with all the formatting and details
> required for a professional paper. But I don't really need that
> myself, at this point. I supposed it might be useful though to have a
> system that can automatically pull all the reference information
> through DOI numbers or whatever, though again I'm not sure I need
> that. My approach is basically just a list of org-entries with a few
> code snippets to make things move along quickly, and then using a few
> convenience org functions to tag, search, atttach, etc. Still
> open-minded as to whether that would make an interesting talk.

I think there's always interest in Org Mode workflow talks, and it's
totally okay (and even awesome!) that you've got simple needs and don't
have a super-fancy setup focused on academic research. =) Then people
who feel like there must be something they can do to organize their
random book notes / websites / snippets / quotes / whatever will be able
to resonate with your talk! I think it would be a great 10-20 minute
talk that I can place with other general-audience talks, and you'll
probably pick up lots of ideas for improvements in the conversations
that follow. Would you like to fill in the form at
https://emacsconf.org/2023/submit/ so that we can save the important
details in our Org entry? =)

Sacha