helm-bibtex VS org-roam

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 keep absolutely everything in a single folder. Saved documents, images, movies, financial records, game saves, it doesn't matter. My hierarchical naming scheme takes care of organization. On the odd occasion I actually need a folder, I just append ".d" to the filename.

I use . as a hierarchy delimiter, so file extensions are just part of the hierarchy, and I can have multiple files with the same name except for the extension. For example, "film.spongebob.png" is a photo of spongebob, "film.spongebob.org" is a note about spongebob, and "film.spongebob.s1.e7" is my favorite episode.

I use org-roam [1] for note-taking and task/time-management. I absolutely require a plain-text system so it either had to be markdown or org-mode. Emacs was the deciding factor, else I would have still been using Dendron [2]

If OneNote is your thing, I'd probably recommend Obsidian [3] over org-roam. Despite it being the greatest program ever created, Emacs is a lot to learn "just" for taking notes.

If you like VS Code, check out Dendron. It's the one that got me into more serious PKMS instead of just chucking notes in a folder all willy nilly.

- [1]: https://www.orgroam.com/

- [2]: https://www.dendron.so/

- [3]: https://obsidian.md/

I'm using org-roam to keep my notes, which generally works well for me. There's one thing I am missing and I'm wondering if I just overlooked it, or whether it simply doesn't exist.

Org-Roam is a Roam-inspired Emacs mode that builds on top of org mode. Every node (aka note) has a unique ID that's different from its name. Every link from node A to node B actually links to the ID, so you can change node B's name without affecting the link. When you're on node B, you can open the Roam buffer and it will show you all of the links that point to that node.

Org Mode. I can export my notes to LaTeX or HTML and keep things tidy in a zettelkasten with org-roam.

Of course, the real power-user move would be to use Emacs with Org-Roam, but you have to be prepared to dive deep into the rabbit-hole. If you don't, it won't be worth it. If you do, you'll be handsomely rewarded. I know because I have, and I can highly recommend it if you like tinkering with and customising your tools. IMO, Doom Emacs is the way to go nowadays.

I'd highly recommend Org-roam. It's what has enabled me to actually start consistently keeping notes (and being able to retrieve/access them later). It's very easy with Org-roam to quickly add new notes, or add information to old notes, and the links/backlinks make (re)discoverability very easy.