* Re: Taking notes / excerptions with emacs
2011-07-01 10:27 Taking notes / excerptions with emacs Frederik
@ 2011-07-01 12:11 ` Jambunathan K
2011-07-01 12:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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From: Jambunathan K @ 2011-07-01 12:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Frederik; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
> Google brought up several modes; org-mode seems promising, but I never
> tried it before.
Look no further than org-mode. If you are looking elsewhere you are
wasting your time.
This is a good place to start: http://orgmode.org/worg/
You may also want to join or follow the emacs-orgmode mailing list.
Jambunathan K.
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2011-07-01 10:27 Taking notes / excerptions with emacs Frederik
2011-07-01 12:11 ` Jambunathan K
@ 2011-07-01 12:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-07-01 14:32 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-01 16:14 ` Richard Riley
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From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2011-07-01 12:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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
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* Re: Taking notes / excerptions with emacs
2011-07-01 10:27 Taking notes / excerptions with emacs Frederik
2011-07-01 12:11 ` Jambunathan K
2011-07-01 12:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen
@ 2011-07-01 14:32 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-01 16:14 ` Richard Riley
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From: Andreas Röhler @ 2011-07-01 14:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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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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2011-07-01 10:27 Taking notes / excerptions with emacs Frederik
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
2011-07-01 14:32 ` Andreas Röhler
@ 2011-07-01 16:14 ` Richard Riley
2011-07-01 21:36 ` Frederik
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From: Richard Riley @ 2011-07-01 16:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Frederik <freak.fred@gmail.com> writes:
> 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
org-mode
It does it all : you can have it as easy or complex as you like and it
ships with a hist of utilities such as gnus integration, html export,
journaling etc etc.
And. more importantly, its a dynamic, polite and responsive development
team working on it which is always open to suggestions and willing to
help which is not bogged down in politics.
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