From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Taking notes / excerptions with emacs Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:48:48 -0400 Message-ID: <87k4c2cgjz.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309524675 4759 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2011 12:51:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:51:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 01 14:51:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QcdBe-0000Gf-W4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:51:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59660 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcdBd-0000yu-Pg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:51:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48927) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcd9c-0000y6-SI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:49:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcd9b-0002py-Bz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:49:04 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36773) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcd9b-0002pi-12 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:49:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcd9Z-0007oW-DU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:49:01 +0200 Original-Received: from c-68-54-81-168.hsd1.md.comcast.net ([68.54.81.168]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:49:01 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by c-68-54-81-168.hsd1.md.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:49:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-68-54-81-168.hsd1.md.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1KOvwZ6hI2/WtXWxIsaGKy4A9cU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81469 Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 01 2011, Frederik wrote: > 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 Google did not lie: org-mode is one of the best emacs modes for this sort of thing. Structured, outline-style documents, flexible search (and "search view") options, metadata galore, and in your case the icing on the cake would be direct export to LaTeX source code. In fact, you can mingle your notes/research and original writing in a single file, and selectively export just the bits that you want. Many people primarily use emacs just to be able to use org-mode… Eric