Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-23 Thread Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
Christoph Groth writes: But not all is good: - Scaling: Some simple tests seem to indicate that org mode becomes too sluggish with files of about 50k lines. This is a dimension that could be easily reached over 10 years if the file grows by 20 lines per day on average. This is not

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-23 Thread Christoph Groth
Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo wrote: Perhaps I am biased because I learned LaTeX and BibTeX before Org, but I think that for references BibTeX (plus a little bit of emacs configuration) has everything I could need. I guess if you are more used to Org, it might be worth to invest time and come up wi

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-10 Thread Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
Christoph Groth writes: My motivation for keeping bibliography in org was to keep all local information about a paper (including notes and comments) in one place. This should make it easier to find it. In BibTeX if any field contains an entry that is not part of the required or optional en

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-10 Thread Christoph Groth
Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo wrote: > Thomas S. Dye writes: > >> I don't manage my bibliography references in Org mode. I am used to >> managing a bibtex database and have never found the need to move >> everything to Org. > > Same here. My motivation for keeping bibliography in org was to keep all

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-09 Thread John Kitchin
Thorsten Jolitz writes: I use https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/blob/master/org/doi-utils.org It is some code I wrote to build bibtex entries from a doi, and to download the pdf if you have access to it. I load it like this: (org-babel-load-file "doi-utils.org") You need to define some variable

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-09 Thread Rasmus
jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: > Thomas S. Dye writes: > >> I don't manage my bibliography references in Org mode. I am >> used to managing a bibtex database and have never found the need >> to move everything to Org. > > Same here. Me too. I use the format

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-09 Thread Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
Thomas S. Dye writes: I don't manage my bibliography references in Org mode. I am used to managing a bibtex database and have never found the need to move everything to Org. Same here. Bibtex mode has functions for automatic reference key generation: http://www.jonathanleroux.org/bibtex

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-09 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Christoph, I don't manage my bibliography references in Org mode. I am used to managing a bibtex database and have never found the need to move everything to Org. Christoph Groth writes: > Most solutions seem to be based around a central BibTeX file and take > advantage of RefTeX to navi

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Loury
Vikas Rawal writes: > There is bibretrieve (https://github.com/pzorin/bibretrieve) and bibfetch > (https://github.com/dschoepe/bibfetch/blob/master/bibfetch.el). Is it only a result of a google search or did you personally use one of those? -- Konubinix GPG Key: 7439106A Fingerprint: 5993

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-09 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Vikas Rawal writes: >> >> It shouldn’t be too difficult to write a “capture” function in emacs >> that turns such records into entries in an org file. That would be >> automatic enough for me. >> > > There is bibretrieve (https://github.com/pzorin/bibretrieve) and > bibfetch > (https://github.

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-09 Thread Fabrice Popineau
I have written a couple of functions to export the Qiqqa library format to Org if anybody is interested. Qiqqa has been much more eager and acute to find online references to all my pdfs papers. Fabrice 2014-09-09 14:18 GMT+02:00 Vikas Rawal : > > > > It shouldn’t be too difficult to write a “c

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-09 Thread Vikas Rawal
> > It shouldn’t be too difficult to write a “capture” function in emacs > that turns such records into entries in an org file. That would be > automatic enough for me. > There is bibretrieve (https://github.com/pzorin/bibretrieve) and bibfetch (https://github.com/dschoepe/bibfetch/blob/master

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-09 Thread Christoph Groth
Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > do you have a function that automatically fetches bibtex entries for > books from the web, given some info (title, year, author or so)? I haven’t yet started to manage literature with org mode, so I do not have anything so far. It’s usually easy to find BibTeX records on

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-09 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Christoph Groth writes: Hi, > Any comments? do you have a function that automatically fetches bibtex entries for books from the web, given some info (title, year, author or so)? -- cheers, Thorsten

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-09 Thread Christoph Groth
Hi again, I’m replying to myself, as I think I’ve found a possible solution to my problem. Most publications have some kind of unique ID that can be present in BibTeX: a DOI number, a ISBN, a preprint ID, or an URL. One could use one these fields as an org-id unique ID for the publication’

[O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

2014-09-08 Thread Christoph Groth
Hello, I’d like to keep my library of scientific articles in orgmode, along with notes, links to external files (mostly PDF), etc. This has been discussed repeatedly on this list, for example in the recent thread http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/78983. Most solutions seem to be based