Re: [O] zotero (or mendeley) integration with org

2011-03-28 Thread Stephen Eglen
Dear all, Thanks for the informative replies. I gave zotero a short-test yesterday,and in general liked what I found, although as it uses sql databases, it is moves away from my preference for plain text files to see everything in. I appreciate that sql may scale better, but I don't have huge

Re: [O] zotero (or mendeley) integration with org

2011-03-28 Thread brian powell
It uses SQLite--Stephen: I'd consider myself a plaintext-whenever-possible sort of dude too; but, SQLite (used in ZOTERO) is a simple/short C program and its (last time I checked) extremely simple--for example there is only left outer join. SQLite databases are very easy to work with and are

[O] zotero (or mendeley) integration with org

2011-03-26 Thread Stephen Eglen
There was a mail-thread lastyear about zotero and integration with org. Now that there is an alpha release of 'org-standalone' http://www.zotero.org/blog/2011/02/ has anyone looked at whether this helps integrate org and zotero? I've not yet switched to a pdf manager (they're all stuffed into

Re: [O] zotero (or mendeley) integration with org

2011-03-26 Thread Cian
I use Mendeley and just set it up to export bibtex files. Then you can just reference those in org-mode using reftex. I think you can do something similar using zotero. It works okay. I don't annotate PDFs using Mendeley (I just write my notes in org-mode), so I'm not sure if you can access those

Re: [O] zotero (or mendeley) integration with org

2011-03-26 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Dear Stephen, [My ---long--- comments refer only to Mendeley, not org, so maybe this should be off-list]. On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Stephen Eglen s.j.eg...@damtp.cam.ac.uk wrote: There was a mail-thread lastyear about zotero and integration with org. Now that there is an alpha release