pdf-tools VS helm-bibtex

Compare pdf-tools vs helm-bibtex and see what are their differences.

pdf-tools

Emacs support library for PDF files. (by politza)

helm-bibtex

Search and manage bibliographies in Emacs (by tmalsburg)
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pdf-tools helm-bibtex
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pdf-tools

Posts with mentions or reviews of pdf-tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-12.

helm-bibtex

Posts with mentions or reviews of helm-bibtex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-20.
  • Write research paper notes/summaries in emacs
    8 projects | /r/emacs | 20 May 2022
    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.
  • org-ref/bibtex-completion/ivy-bibtex entries are not displayed if keyphrases do not fall into the display field
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Oct 2021
    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.
  • New package consult-bibtex
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 27 Aug 2021
    no multiple selection (ivy has it, but not ivy-bibtex, see https://github.com/tmalsburg/helm-bibtex/issues/308)
  • Consult equivalent for ivy-bibtex?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 7 Mar 2021
    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?
  • completing-read: displaying using one string, but searching on another?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 26 Feb 2021
    I'm an elisp novice working on this PR, and trying to figure out if I can adapt this completing-read based function to display data from this (which it already does):
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 26 Feb 2021
    This got me pointed in the right direction. I just need to now write the helper function to grab that extended metadata.
  • Long-Time Emacs User Looking to Level-Up (note-taking for classes)
    12 projects | /r/emacs | 16 Feb 2021
    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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pdf-tools and helm-bibtex you can also consider the following projects:

citar - Emacs package to quickly find and act on bibliographic references, and edit org, markdown, and latex academic documents.

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

dot-doom - My Doom Emacs config files. Mirrored from https://gitlab.com/zzamboni/dot-doom

org-ref - org-mode modules for citations, cross-references, bibliographies in org-mode and useful bibtex tools to go with it.

org-noter - Emacs document annotator, using Org-mode

org-roam - Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode

build-emacs-for-macos - Somewhat hacky script to automate building of Emac.app on macOS.

org-roam-bibtex - Org Roam integration with bibliography management software

citeproc-el - A CSL 1.0.2 Citation Processor for Emacs.

GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs