From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alternative to Mendeley Date: 2 Sep 2013 12:30:26 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378125314 7792 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2013 12:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 12:35:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 02 14:35:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VGTLi-0001L3-Gj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:35:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39515 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGTLh-0005j6-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 08:35:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 5MHFjuVXk3ks+l0fRWxCiQ+dXbo9m69npIBnx8dIhXY+ezmJSh Cancel-Lock: sha1:95ORXS0RUYzRkUfoV4izHbsT6eE= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200923 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:93191 Archived-At: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Hi. I use Emacs and Auctex. For my academic research, so far I have made > notes in several files - one for each paper. Several people have recommended > Mendeley to me. Mendeley is proprietary (even though it is gratis) and I > prefer open source. I only tolerate proprietary software if it is much better > than the open alternative. Can you recommend a good alternative to Mendeley? > Integration with Emacs is a plus but not mandatory. But it must be something > I can learn (the basics) in an afternoon. I guess it depends on what you're looking for exactly. If you just want a program to manage your .bib-files without having to edit them by hand, you could take a look at an Emacs package I maintain, Ebib[1]. It allows you to add notes to your entries, which are stored in the .bib file, but also filenames, urls and DOIs, which can be opened in an appropriate viewer or your browser. However, if you're looking for something that integrates with the web and/or social networks, then Zotero is probably the best choice, since it's open source and well-known. I don't know how well it integrates with LaTeX (which I assume is what you're using), but there is an Emacs package called Zotelo[2] that seems to make that easier. HTH Joost [1] Installable via MELPA or . [2] -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)