scimax VS org-thesis

Compare scimax vs org-thesis and see what are their differences.

scimax

An emacs starterkit for scientists and engineers (by jkitchin)

org-thesis

Writing a Ph.D. thesis with Org Mode (by dangom)
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scimax

Posts with mentions or reviews of scimax. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-27.
  • Jupyter and org-mode in scimax [video]
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2023
  • Testing different Emacs distros easy way in Emacs 29/30
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 4 Apr 2023
  • Switched to Emacs a week ago, really thrilled so far. Looking for help on a few (somewhat advanced) questions.
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 1 Apr 2023
    Scimax should have out of box setup for bibliography, references etc. Anyway, regardless of what you use Emacs for, one step a time, would be my recommendation. Just start using it and solve problems as you experience them. It is better to add a single thing at a time when you need it, than to add 1000 different things because you think you will need them, and then not know what you have or what causes a problem.
  • Embed excalidraw in Emacs?
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Feb 2023
    https://github.com/wdavew/org-excalidraw is close. I discovered you can install Excalidraw from Chrome, and then it is like a local program. That is pretty amazing in itself. org-excalidraw indeed offers an org-link and way to make an excalidraw file from emacs, edited natively in an external excalidraw window. The svg preview does not work though if you use freehand lines in your image, and I was unable to install the npm packages on my Mac for some uninteresting reason related to DNS, but it did work in a node docker image. I find writing in excalidraw less advanced than in tools like Notability or PDFExpert. There are some artifacts in excalidraw from smoothing, or dangling pixels that I don't love. I forgot I had previously used https://github.com/lepisma/org-krita. Krita is a full drawing program, and this integrates into org-mode with image previews nicely. I am not that skilled in using it, and as a full drawing program, it has a learning curve. I wrote https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/scimax-inkscape.el to integrate inkscape into org-mode. It works, but I find inkscape slow to open, and I am not that skilled in using it.
  • Emacs and knowledge management for scientists
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 21 Jan 2023
    Maybe give scimax a go?
  • Emacs as org-mode interpreter - standalone, batch mode?
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 13 Jan 2023
    Anyway, if you want something geared toward scientific usage, there is Scimax by J. Kitchin. There may be some others, but I am not aware off.
  • emacs distributions without evil?
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 5 Nov 2022
    Apart from the ones already mention, John Kitchin's science-focused Scimacs is also an option.
  • Preferred Citation Management and Knowledge Management Tools?
    3 projects | /r/bioinformatics | 12 Jul 2022
  • Possible to display errors in src block results?
    2 projects | /r/orgmode | 3 May 2022
    Got it. Then, I recommend watching other videos by John Kitchin. He had some introductory presentations on Python programming in Org mode. He developed the whole Emacs system optimised for python, Org, and research work: https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/
  • Writing papers/thesis in org with a barebone config
    5 projects | /r/orgmode | 27 Jan 2022
    Not barebones, but I would consider looking at scimax, which is an emacs configuration that likely is similar to your work flow. You can also look to PhD theses written in org-mode and shared on github, there are a few with sensible configurations you might want to just copy.

org-thesis

Posts with mentions or reviews of org-thesis. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.
  • Is emacs the answer?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 6 May 2023
    I have used Org mode in tandem with LaTeX for displaying inline statistical equations when taking notes for data science topics and have found it works very well, although I am by no means a LaTeX expert. I have, however, read where Ph.D students have used Org mode to write their theses using LaTeX.
  • Writing papers/thesis in org with a barebone config
    5 projects | /r/orgmode | 27 Jan 2022
    Not barebones, but I would consider looking at scimax, which is an emacs configuration that likely is similar to your work flow. You can also look to PhD theses written in org-mode and shared on github, there are a few with sensible configurations you might want to just copy.
  • Text snippets for use in multiple documents?
    2 projects | /r/orgmode | 14 Dec 2021
  • Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017)
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Mar 2021
    As a sibling parent mentioned, you can tag an element by inserting it into it's own heading and adding the :ignore: tag.

    I feel this functionality is overlooked, and it is in my opinion one of the most powerful features implemented in org, as it allows you to add "meta" groupings to your org document without any effect on the content.

    Without the :ignore: tag, there is a strict semantic relation between org-mode document headings, as physically indicated by the * at the beginning of a line, and the corresponding hierarchical level of the heading's content.

    With the :ignore: tag, however, you separate content from form. Headings with :ignore: work just as headings for your file.org document: you can search for headings, link to them, add IDs and properties and whatever else you can do with headings. But when you export your document, the heading no longer exists and thus has no impact on the hierarchical level of its content.

    Why is this interesting? Well, because if content is separated from form, we can build things where the same content assume multiple forms depending on whatever context we define.

    I used this in combination with other org-mode tags, "#+exclude_tags" and "#+include" directives to build my Ph.D. thesis with org mode and have my thesis chapters be exportable both as thesis chapters as well as standalone publications. Shameless plug: https://github.com/dangom/org-thesis

    It should be straightforward to extend the idea to presentations and other formats as well.

  • Where shall I go next? Please give me some guidance you Yodas of emacs.
    8 projects | /r/emacs | 13 Feb 2021
    https://github.com/dangom/org-thesis (org mode phd solution) https://write.as/dani/writing-a-phd-thesis-with-org-mode (explaining his solution)
  • Can we use Org mode to write books and generate EPUB and MOBI files?
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 7 Jan 2021
    I wrote my thesis with org mode and wrote about it here: https://write.as/dani/writing-a-phd-thesis-with-org-mode. Repo here: https://github.com/dangom/org-thesis

What are some alternatives?

When comparing scimax and org-thesis you can also consider the following projects:

.emacs.d - Emacs backup of mine

.spacemacs.d - My spacemacs config files. For spacemacs source, see https://github.com/capsulecorplab/spacemacs

org-roam - Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode

tufte-org-mode - An Org mode environment for producing Tufte-LaTeX books and handouts

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

vim-orgmode - Text outlining and task management for Vim based on Emacs' Org-Mode

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

dotemacs - My emacs configuration.

CrossLine - CrossLine is an outliner with sophisticated cross-link capabilities in the tradition of the well-respected Ecco Pro

ox-leanpub - Org-mode exporter for Leanpub books - mirrored from GitLab

ox-epub - Org mode epub export

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