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# Writing and organizing literature notes for scientific writing
Vidianos (<mailto:vidianosgiannitsis@gmail.com>)

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This talk is heavily inspired by an excerpt from the book "How to Take
Smart Notes" by Sonke Ahrens where he talks about writing a paper step
by step. My note taking process was heavily inspired by this book and
its arguably the part of my config I have written the most code for as
I wanted to personalize a lot of it. One of the most interesting parts
of it is how I write and organize my literature notes after reading
scientific articles. I am a 4th year university student in Chemical
Engineering so I have some relation to scientific writing for various
projects I have worked on for uni. I don't believe my workflow is
perfect for this, but since I have worked a lot on it, I think it will
be something useful to showcase and others interested in the topic
will gain something from it.

This talk will focus on how Emacs has aided me in scientific writing
and will cover how I use various packages for this. Featured will be:
Org-noter, one of my favourite emacs packages which I use to annotate
articles using org-mode while reading them. I will focus primarily on
its integration with my org-roam-capture-templates and how it,
org-roam-bibtex and ivy-bibtex work together to very easily create and
flesh out literature notes for the articles I find, but I will also
briefly mention how I annotate articles. Then, how I use org-roam to
then take what I learned from this literature and create permanent
notes on it which I can then add easily to my Zettelkasten. And
finally, how I organize both literature and permanent notes on a
subject using my own project, the zetteldesk package, and how I can
very easily create a first draft of my work using this. With the draft
created organically through my notes, it is then almost effortless to
write the final work, as it consists simply of reading the draft,
making small changes and fixes and perfecting it so it is a ready
product.

My ideal talk duration would be 20 minutes so I can explain my
workflow with this set of packages without skimming over too many
details. I will have time to touch on how I use all the packages that
participate in this workflow, and will also be able to show some of
the elisp that does all the work behind the scenes, which I personally
consider very useful.



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