MAmagical_spell·Mar 21, 2024
pdf-tools [1] + org-ref [2] in Emacs.
[1] https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools
[2] https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref
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org-ref
org-mode modules for citations, cross-references, bibliographies in org-mode and useful bibtex tools to go with it.
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org-mode modules for citations, cross-references, bibliographies in org-mode and useful bibtex tools to go with it.
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I love org mode for scientific writing (especially with org-ref [0]) but it’s just not very convenient for collaborative projects because there are very few emacs users (in my…
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10 sourcesscimax : https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax
org-ref : https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/
literature review with org-ref : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2aNBnxosUQ
In Jupyter and org-mode in scimax [video]I love org mode for scientific writing (especially with org-ref [0]) but it’s just not very convenient for collaborative projects because there are very few emacs users (in my field at least). Overleaf has been workable in my experience, but I still get pushback sometimes.
A diff-aware org-latex import would be amazing for this actually, like if pandoc could do tex -> org but align all the code blocks / generated figures
[0]: https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref
In Replace Jupyter with Emacs Org Mode: Unleash the Power of Literate ProgrammingOrg-ref: org-mode modules for citations, cross-references, bibliographies
3 points · Open discussionSince you’re an emacs user, I highly recommend org mode and org-ref for technical writing. For collaborative writing I’ll export to overleaf, but I’ve never found anything quite as good as org mode for organizing, building, and revising research writeups.
You don’t have to go all in on org for notes and TODO tracking (I’ve tried and haven’t made it stick).
https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref
In Ask HN: Whats your ideal PhD workflowIf you use org mode I highly suggest org-ref (https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref) that leverages and adds a lot to Bibtex. It makes creating/managing/citing/searching a bibliography a breeze.
In Keeping a BibliographyJust to add to this, if you take a lot of mathematics notes, you can embed latex fragments in Org-mode. Making use of the yasnippet package, writing latex is actually quite efficient.
On top of this, if you read a fair bit of papers, check out org-ref [1]. Referencing and notetaking of papers becomes a breeze.
Finally, you can also export your notes to a bunch of different formats (e.g. html, pdf).
[1] https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref
In Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?Then I will! I've always preferred taking notes on a computer due to how much easier it is to
- edit
- organize (heck, you can even search!)
But I'm a maths student and I never came across anything where I can efficiently write equations and formulas, before Emacs + Org-mode.
I have now been using Emacs + Org-mode + Yasnippet for a year, and it's bloody amazing. When it comes to efficiently including latex-expressions in my org-notes, Yasnippet is an absolute must.
And because this is Org-mode, I can export all my notes to HTML, PDF, etc. Adding a bit of customization, you get something like this http://www.retiredparkingguard.com/notes/. If you go to one of the note-pages with a bit of maths on it, e.g. mathematics/geometry.html, you should see a bar on the right displaying the notation used in each section. This requires javascript.
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lso make heavy use of customized named blocks in my note-taking, e.g.
#+name: def:schrodinger-equation
#+begin_definition
...
#+end_definition
And then, using org-ref, I can do a `M-x org-ref-insert-ref-link` anywhere in the document and I can search through all these definitions, theorems, etc.
These blocks, when exported to HTML, are also given CSS classes, hence you can easily give these styling, making the reading experience into whatever you want.
Finally, I would also suggest org-ref by John Kitchin (https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref); it makes organizing papers and the corresponding notes so incredibly easy.
All together this makes note-taking such a breeze and lowers the barrier for me to re-read and edit my notes significantly, compared to handwritten notes.
org-mode does indeed support footnotes[fn:1], but I was recently saddened to find that Github doesn't render them (it does render more basic org-mode features, though).
org-ref[fn:2] has extensive support for for citations and is explicitly designed for scientific papers and output to LaTeX.
[fn:1] Check out http://orgmode.org/manual/Footnotes.html
[fn:2] Check out https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/blob/master/org-ref.org
In Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text