helm-bibtex VS dot-doom

This on its own is a great system for writing such notes. However, it is very lacking in searchability. If you want the notes, you need to go find them. To solve this, you first need a package to manage your bibliography in Emacs. These function with a .bib file that I assume you already can obtain through Mendeley. To my knowledge, there are two great packages for this, citar and bibtex-completion (which is actually two packages ivy-bibtex and helm-bibtex). Depending on the completion framework you are using (Ivy, Helm or Vertico/Selectrum) you can use one of these. These packages read from a bibliography file and make your life so much easier in finding the research paper you are looking for. They also have another neat feature. They allow you to create notes for your bibtex entries with ready customisable templates. This makes this whole process so much easier as you can find a paper you want to read, create a note for it with one of these packages and then link it to its pdf with org-noter. This way you have a fully-fledged research workflow inside Emacs.

I have a question regarding org-ref, bibtex-completion and ivy-bibtex respectively. I have org-ref set up as suggested by John Kitchin on his github page. This is some of the relevant code, i guess.

no multiple selection (ivy has it, but not ivy-bibtex, see https://github.com/tmalsburg/helm-bibtex/issues/308)

There is already a completing-read implementation of helm-bibtex/ivy-bibtex in the works which is supposed to be used with Selectrum/Icomplete/Consult etc. See https://github.com/tmalsburg/helm-bibtex/pull/361 and https://github.com/tmalsburg/helm-bibtex/pull/355. Maybe you can collaborate with /u/bdarcus?

This got me pointed in the right direction. I just need to now write the helper function to grab that extended metadata.

I also second the suggestion of another poster on counsel, swiper, ivy, etc. (I love this suite and the various add-ons). I'd add ivy-bibtex.

I switched from a hand-maintained config to Doom last year, and I can highly recommend it. It's very well organized, the community is very friendly and it works great. If you are interested, my config is at https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-doom/blob/master/doom.org.

This sets the default for all the emacs-lisp blocks in the file, but you can still selectively write other blocks to different files, or not at all by specifying :tangle no. This way you can easily tangle multiple destination files from a single Org file. For an example, you can see my doom.org file, from which Doom's init.el, config.el and packages.el are all tangled.

In my config I have a hook I can call after saving the .org file to automatically export it and update the open browser to the current slide. This makes the process of updating/viewing the presentation a lot smoother. You can find my config here: https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-doom/blob/master/doom.org#revealjs-presentations

Note that I said my "old config". A few months ago. I decided to try Doom Emacs. Over a couple of days, I ported most of the important bits of my decades-old, hand-maintained config, and in the process realized I could get rid of a lot of scaffolding (like the whole package-management bits in your config) by virtue of Doom's existing mechanisms, and also I could omit a lot of the configuration because Doom includes decent defaults for many things. I have not regretted moving to Doom. You can find my new config at https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-doom/blob/master/doom.org.

If you use use-package, it works well to define the package to be loaded :after org. I have lots of examples in my old emacs config, for example: (use-package ox-hugo :defer 3 :after org :custom (org-hugo-use-code-for-kbd t)) I now use Doom Emacs, but the same technique can be used with use-package!. For example, from my Doom Config: (use-package! ox-leanpub :after org :config (require 'ox-leanpub-markdown) (org-leanpub-book-setup-menu-markdown)) HTH