![]() Alternatively, I could register as a developer, get an API key, and develop a full web-style app to get hold of my own data. It only exports a limited subset of the fields in the database. There's now only the limited (for my purposes, useless) "export database" facility in the client. No more user control over one's own data and workflow. Well, now Mendeley has encrypted everything, that's the end of that. Not only did users take advantage of this, but a small ecosystem of third-party tools and scripts had sprung up to help people take control over automating repetitive tasks in managing their bibliographies. Previously, users could access their data by running `sqlite3` on a plain sqlite database in their profile directory. ![]() The encryption is completely proprietary and there are no tools available for letting users work with the now-encrypted databases. (Neither of these excuses holds water.) The keys are not available to the users whose data were encrypted. Mendeley has started encrypting users' bibliography files (from version 19), claiming variously that encryption is required by GDPR (?!?!) and/or that it improves security on a multiuser system. I have just recently switched away from Mendeley because of an insanely user-hostile thing they've just done to lock-in their users. All together it makes emacs the ultimate writers tool, as far as I'm concerned. If RefTeX can't find my query, not only does it ask if I want to add a new one, it asks whether to search various databases for it including arXiv, DBLP (computer science bibliography), Google Scholar, Bodleian Library, HAL, Library of Congress, British Library and others.Īdding entries to the database is as simple as editing a plain text file, and BibTeX provides quick shortcuts for all the different kinds of entries, checks them for you and provides a sane and customizable key.Įverything is completely integrated - my writing, my pdf library, my org notes, my bibliography database, my email as well as my thesaurus (wordnut), my pdf reader (pdf-tools) and my git repo (magit). This answeres your questionį9: Show notes, if there's an. When I've found my reference I have ten options, including:į3: Insert the citation into my thesis and then be asked for what kind of note I want to add (footnote? Title? author name? Year? Just a bibliography entry?), then any text to add before the reference (eg, "This argument has been made by,"), then after (p. This calls up a list of all possible references and a fuzzy search box which lets me narrow it down. I just call up RefTeX by hitting ctrl-x + (or "C-x +" in emacs parlance). * edited because I confused AucTeX with RefTeX. And two years on I'm still cleaning up that Better BibTeX's BibLaTeX file. Emacs/AucTeX/RefTeX does everything Zotero does (at least according to my use) but faster, cleaner, more holistically, and with more features (eg crossref'ing entries). Zotero has massively benefited my work, but it's also been something of a training wheel which in the longer term slowed me down. And it created lots of entries, the BibLaTeX entry of last resort, when it should have made and other things. Better BibTeX created tons of needless double curly brackets in the BibLaTeX file, making searching it directly a pain. ![]() I used the Better BibTeX plugin to maintain a BibLaTeX file, but as I developed my emacs skills I moved to RefTeX.Īt that point I realised that my BibLaTeX file was really a mess. I used Zotero through my MA and into my PhD, when I discovered and began writing in LaTeX in emacs/AucTeX instead of LibreOffice. Of course it does not solve the problem of generating clean bibtex files.Įdit: The script has been moved from the gist to the public repository The papers are passively downloaded, and if I remember ever downloading a paper, it's one fuzzy-search away. What is particularly convenient is that no time is spent trying to organize the papers into folders, or importing them into software such as zotero. The first page of academic PDFs usually contains title, abstract, author names, institutions, keywords of the paper so typing any combination of those will quickly find the pdf. The command p from the script let me instantaneously fuzzy-search over the first page of each pdf (The first page of each pdf is extracted using pdftotext, but cached so it's fast). This results in thousands in papers lying in Downloads/ or elsewhere. as I read new PDFs in the browser, the PDFs are passively downloaded typically in a Downloads/ folder. I use a little script and a passive approach to quickly find a PDF I am looking for among a few thousands of academic PDF.
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