I recently started using org-roam and org-ref to build up a personal knowledge database with an eye to writing papers on Scottish music history, and it’s been great so far. Highlights include:
The full markup power of org-mode (similar to Markdown, but IMHO more expressive)
The benefits you mentioned of everything being plain text, working with git, etc.
Really effortlessly looking up backlinks (the entire point of org-roam)
Integrating with org-mode’s todo/agenda system to spin off things to do and keep track of them (frequently I’ll be reading a paper and add a todo to look up some obscure source that only exists in a specific research library, for example).
Pulling together all my notes so I can write something formal, and having the org file get turned into a beautiful PDF (via LaTeX) all from within Emacs
Painlessly inserting citations from a dedicated bibliography file I maintain, with whatever format is needed.
Using org links / org-roam to keep track of annotations on the sources themselves.
And what’s wild is I still feel like I’m scratching the surface.
After a few weeks I have 219 notes containing 10,000 words and ~350 links. It’s really wonderful how effortless it is to spin up a new note.
Puh, I try to keep it simple. Just Excel for my tasks and things I want to adress to other during regular meetings. A calendar named Reminder for time critical things. Flat text files in <10 folders with simple markdown as my note storage. Ah, and a regular notebook for in person meeting with others.
The only thing missing is org mode…
I recently started using org-roam and org-ref to build up a personal knowledge database with an eye to writing papers on Scottish music history, and it’s been great so far. Highlights include:
And what’s wild is I still feel like I’m scratching the surface.
After a few weeks I have 219 notes containing 10,000 words and ~350 links. It’s really wonderful how effortless it is to spin up a new note.
Puh, I try to keep it simple. Just Excel for my tasks and things I want to adress to other during regular meetings. A calendar named Reminder for time critical things. Flat text files in <10 folders with simple markdown as my note storage. Ah, and a regular notebook for in person meeting with others.