From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Taking notes / excerptions with emacs Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:14:23 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309539112 603 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2011 16:51:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:51:52 +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 18:51:46 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 1QcgwT-0004K8-QU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:51:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37750 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcgwS-0004Iu-Cn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:51:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44436) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcgLz-0003Er-GE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:14:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcgLx-0001Xe-U2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52909) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcgLx-0001Wi-EL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:14:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QcgLs-0003x1-G9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:13:56 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:13:56 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:13:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:D+nbfvvbpfHIGU59+f5rLB8Kurg= 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:81471 Archived-At: Frederik 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.