[[!meta title="Org-Mode Workflow: Informal Reference Tracking"]] [[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2023 Christopher Howard"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/ref-nav)" raw="yes"]] # Org-Mode Workflow: Informal Reference Tracking Christopher Howard (he/him) - IRC: lispmacs, [[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/ref-before)" raw="yes"]] This talk describes my Emacs workflow for keep track of references to papers, book, and Web articles, and other things I might want to look-up or quote later. I go over a few code snippets and some basic org commands which make the process quick, easy, and practical for my needs. This talk is targetted for the beginner to intermediate Emacs user, or those who do not have much experience with org-mode. Also, those who do a lot of advanced technical writing should look instead to Vidianos Giannitsis' talk [Writing and organizing literature notes for scientific writing](https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/science/) where they will find better tools for reference tracking and scraping. About the speaker: Christopher Howard is an electronics technician who studies various scholarly and scientific subjects in his (very limited) spare time. He needed a quick and easy system for keeping track of various references to books, Web articles, and so forth. He found that a few code snippets and some basic tools from Org-Mode have worked well for him, while requiring a minimal setup and learning curve. He hopes that sharing his workflow will be useful to some others with similar needs. [[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/ref-after)" raw="yes"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/ref-nav)" raw="yes"]]