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# Org-Mode Workflow: Informal Reference Tracking
Christopher Howard (he/him) - IRC: lispmacs, <mailto:christopher@librehacker.com>

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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.


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