This doesn't sound like something that should be happening I think. How current is your org-ref?
I do not use the notes feature so it does not get tested too often. You may be able to control the format of the notes created with the variable org-ref-note-title-format if you are using the default notes function that adds a headline. Georg W. Otto writes: > Dear all, > > > This is probably something that has come up before, but so far I haven't > found a solution: > > My problem concerns automatic file path expansion in my org-ref > setting. According to the instructions in > > https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref > and > https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4gudyw/help_me_with_my_orgmode_workflow_for_notetaking/ > > I set up the paths to my bibliography, my notes and my pdfs like this: > > (setq org-ref-bibliography-notes "~/Dropbox/bibliography/notes.org" > org-ref-default-bibliography '("~/Dropbox/bibliography/references.bib") > org-ref-pdf-directory "~/Dropbox/bibliography/bibtex-pdfs/") > > > Navigation to a bibtex entry and running org-ref-open-bibtex-notes > creates an orgmode heading in notes.org that contains a link to the pdf > file of the publication. Unfortunately, that link uses an expanded file > path, i.e: > /home/<username>/Dropbox/bibliography/bibtex-pdfs/BibtexKey.pdf > > so it is useless when generated by a different user. Would it be > possible to create a link that does not expand the file path, like this > > ~/Dropbox/bibliography/bibtex-pdfs/BibtexKey.pdf > > I appreciate your help. > > Georg -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
