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.
Docear and jabref 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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