EmacsConf 2021: Managing a research workflow (bibliographies, note-taking, and arXiv) - Ahmed Khaled
Channel: EmacsConf and Emacs hangouts
Date: 27/11/2021

EmacsConf 2021: Managing a research workflow (bibliographies, note-taking, and arXiv) - Ahmed Khaled
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00:00 Introduction
00:51 Elfeed
02:30 org-ref
03:50 BibLaTeX
05:48 Notes and org-roam

Researchers and knowledge workers have to read and discover new papers, ask questions about what they read, write notes and scratchwork, and store much of this information for use in writing papers and/or code. Emacs allows us to do all of this (and more) using simple text interfaces that integrate well together. In this talk I will talk about the following:

a. Using elfeed and elfeed-score to read new papers from arXiv. b. Using org-ref to import arXiv papers of interest into a local bibliography. c. Using Emacs hooks with biber and rebiber in order to keep the local bibliography clean and up-to-date with conference versions of papers. d. Using org-roam and org-roam-bibtex to take linked, searchable notes in org on research papers.

This text-based workflow allows for keeping everything accessible under version control and avoids the platform lock-in of binary formats (e.g. Mendeley). I will share my Doom Emacs configuration for this workflow, but it is not limited to Doom.