browser-hist.el VS org-noter

Next, I needed to open a related project, which I didn't have locally. So, finally, I had actually to open my browser. Note that everything I described to this point, all, was done solely in Emacs. But wait, we're not ready to switch just yet. Now, I remembered that I already had to open that repo last week, so I searched through my browser history and found the link to it. , and now I'm in the browser. I searched, and I found the document I needed, and I decided - that still didn't warrant cloning the entire project. "I'm just gonna copy the link and put it in my note...". The inserted link would've been something like https://github.com/booga/wooga/pulls/4110. But not in Emacs, no. Since I'm using Org-mode, I customized org-link-make-description-function. What it lets you do, is to write your custom function, and that's what I did. My function goes to GitHub and pulls the description of the PR #4110. And now my link looks like this: Fixes migration in the Orchestration Module booga/wooga#4110.

I regularly paste text from other sources (e.g. a bit of Wikipedia text for a stub note, or highlighted text from a PDF via org-noter) into my notes and what I am looking for is a way to find/indicate existing org-roam entries in those pieces of text.

So right now I am having to go through tons of reading material. I'm taking an abundance of notes, etc. I'm trying to prep for an exam. I need to read multiple books, and I just started with the first one. I opened PDF-tools and then, using Org-noter I started taking notes. Each note is like an annotation in the book, tied to its specific location. Next time when I go through my notes, I can jump to the specific page in the book. And vice-versa - while re-reading through the book, I can see all related notes, right there in the adjacent window.

First, make sure that you are using this repo, instead of the other one which is unmantained for a couple years. It includes a lot of fixes and new features that with luck might fix your issues.

Thank you for your detailed answer - I am not OP but I just wanted to point out (in case you were unaware) that the great org-noter has recently found a new maintainer and the repo has moved here: https://github.com/org-noter/org-noter

An alternative is to open PDFs, from Zotero or from anywhere else, with Emacs' pdf-tools (https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools). If you annotate the pdf, those annotations are part of the pdf. And you can also use org-noter (https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter) and org-noter-pdftools (https://github.com/fuxialexander/org-pdftools; but see https://github.com/fuxialexander/org-pdftools/issues/93#issuecomment-1493314118 if you use the new org-noter from https://github.com/org-noter/org-noter).

The maintained repo is at https://github.com/org-noter/org-noter and the branch you want is https://github.com/org-noter/org-noter/tree/bugfix/nov-mode.

Possibly: Org-noter and/or PDF Tools.

New version on melpa; new repo at github.com/org-noter/org-noter

If you have un-dealt-with PRs on the author's repo, please redirect/resubmit them to https://github.com/org-noter/org-noter.