Hello, I seek clarification. Do you read PDFs in Emacs or on your e-ink device?
I thought of org-noter as essentially "for people who read on the laptop", which I can't stand doing. But you also use e-ink, so how do you reconcile these? Do you read an initial pass on the e-ink device and then take notes with org-noter? I.e. org-noter not as a reading system, just as a neat way to refer to pages while writing down knowledge you basically already possess at that point?
Excellent stuff. I was wondering whether you use Org-Roam-Bibtex or Org-Noter for taking notes of papers. As I understand, they are different methods to manage notes associated to a reference. Maybe you could tell me how you go about it. Trying to find my own workflow. Thanks!
Just to add: I realize that org-noter is for notes associated to documents like PDF. If you have a reference database or scientific papers and you may have PDFs or not for them. Then, you could potentially have notes created with org-noter for the PDF but also have extra notes created with org-roam-bibtex separately for that same reference. Is this correct?
Hi, thanks for the appreciation and the questions! I do plan to do a more in-depth explanation of all the moving parts for documenting PDFs and articles, but I'll give a brief outline. The way I have it set up; I have a deft note per-topic, like say; "Graph Neural Networks" which has links and backlinks to other deft notes. Within the deft note there are references; and each reference has notes through org-roam-bibtex. The ORB notes are high level notes about the paper; and the org-noter notes are intimately tied to the text (like, see section 2.4 might be an org-noter note; but, authors prove blah with xyz would be the ORB note). It is about a layering of contexts; the deft note is where I connect topics to other topics, the ORB note contains the most important takeaways, and the org-noter notes are the real document annotations.<br />I hope that helps!
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Hello, I seek clarification. Do you read PDFs in Emacs or on your e-ink device?
I thought of org-noter as essentially "for people who read on the laptop", which I can't stand doing. But you also use e-ink, so how do you reconcile these? Do you read an initial pass on the e-ink device and then take notes with org-noter? I.e. org-noter not as a reading system, just as a neat way to refer to pages while writing down knowledge you basically already possess at that point?
Thanks for the question, I use my e-ink device for reading and org-noter to take notes later as you noted.
Excellent stuff. I was wondering whether you use Org-Roam-Bibtex or Org-Noter for taking notes of papers. As I understand, they are different methods to manage notes associated to a reference. Maybe you could tell me how you go about it. Trying to find my own workflow. Thanks!
Just to add: I realize that org-noter is for notes associated to documents like PDF. If you have a reference database or scientific papers and you may have PDFs or not for them. Then, you could potentially have notes created with org-noter for the PDF but also have extra notes created with org-roam-bibtex separately for that same reference. Is this correct?
Hi, thanks for the appreciation and the questions! I do plan to do a more in-depth explanation of all the moving parts for documenting PDFs and articles, but I'll give a brief outline. The way I have it set up; I have a deft note per-topic, like say; "Graph Neural Networks" which has links and backlinks to other deft notes. Within the deft note there are references; and each reference has notes through org-roam-bibtex. The ORB notes are high level notes about the paper; and the org-noter notes are intimately tied to the text (like, see section 2.4 might be an org-noter note; but, authors prove blah with xyz would be the ORB note). It is about a layering of contexts; the deft note is where I connect topics to other topics, the ORB note contains the most important takeaways, and the org-noter notes are the real document annotations.<br />I hope that helps!