Am 01.07.2011 12:27, schrieb Frederik:
> Hi There!
>
> Until now I've taken notes and did extracts/abstracts of the books I had
> to read by hand, i.e. with pen & paper.
>
> Now I want to switch to the digital world... What could be more natural
> than using emacs, because I already use it with AucTeX to create my
> latex documents.
>
> What I basically need is ordering of the abstracts and full-text search
> for my notes. Printing the notes would be useful, too.
>
> Google brought up several modes; org-mode seems promising, but I never
> tried it before.
>
> How do you take notes? Any special suggestions? I thought it could be
> helpful to ask on this list before trying out several modes...
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Fred
>
>

Hi, the file attached stores data together with it's location.

Call `M-x note-with-url' with an active region.

It's designed to take notes from Emacs-w3m browser, but works with any 
buffer.

Notes are stored in files setting up variables listing paired entries 
like this:

(setq nwu-example
       (quote
        (list
        ("Thanks to many of the other people for the great 
contributions." . "http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/")

("Vor dem Bundesfinanzhof müssen sich die Beteiligten
     durch Prozessbevollmächtigte vertreten lassen. Dies gilt
     auch für Prozesshandlungen, durch die ein Verfahren vor
     dem Bundesfinanzhof eingeleitet wird." . 
"/MY-LOCAL/PATH/gesetze/rechtsberatungsrecht.txt")
)))

When taking notes from Emacs Mail, remember.el will be more suitable maybe.


Andreas

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