PDF organization, general tips for keeping track of everything

• ripgrep-all

  43 6,200 7.6 Rust

  rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.

For searching, I use a tool called rga to search through the text inside all the PDFs in my library.

• zotero-better-bibtex

  33 4,892 9.9 TypeScript

  Make Zotero effective for us LaTeX holdouts

I use Zotero for capturing articles (i.e. saving the PDF file and adding the corresponding BibTeX entry). I use the Better BibTeX plugin along with Zotfile. These plugins help me rename and move the downloaded PDFs into my library folder. I follow the AuthorYear naming scheme for the PDFs.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• org-roam

  147 5,344 3.2 Emacs Lisp

  Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode

  

For note taking, I use org-roam, an obsidian-like tool for emacs (my text editor). For each article that I've read, I have an org-roam node (a note with proper tags) that I can reference later.

• ranger

  165 14,937 5.5 Python

  A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

  

My file-manager, ranger supports tagging file with a letter. I use this feature sometime to tag PDFs of different topics.

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