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+# Emacs as a fully-fledged reference manager
+Vidianos Giannitsis (he/him) - IRC: vidianos, <https://github.com/Vidianos-Giannitsis>. Vidianos Giannitsis on LinkedIn <mailto:vidianosgiannitsis@gmail.com>
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+Even though all of my note-taking and literature organization
+infrastructure has been in Emacs for a few years, I haven't been able to
+make myself independent from a literature manager (Zotero in my case)
+until recently. Zotero was just too convenient. You can capture articles
+seamlessly (although downloading attachments didn't always work as
+intended), organize them in directories and take a quick look at your
+lists to determine what to read next, before you move on to actually
+reading them and taking notes.
+
+This year, I finally decided that I am tired of this and I will find a
+way to do this fully in Emacs. This talk will be discussing my findings
+in this regard. A lot of this was built in Ebib. It turns out that a lot
+of what I considered useful for this workflow was already available
+through this excellent software, built inside Emacs. Not everything
+worked as I wanted on installation, but naturally, this is Emacs, so I
+just hacked my way through getting the exact behaviour I wanted. This
+required integration with other tools and especially a closer
+interaction between Ebib and Org-roam. This came out incredible and I am
+now very happy with using it, so I thought I should also showcase it in
+EmacsConf!
+
+With this integration ready, only capturing articles from the web
+remains. Zotra can capture articles in a way about as seamless as
+Zotero's (it actually uses Zotero's translators, but from Emacs).
+Attachments remain a problem sometimes, but that's publishers making
+attachments hard to get because third party software can't see that you
+have full access to them, so I have decided to do those mostly manually,
+I often did that with Zotero anyways.
+
+Relevant links:
+
+-   [Zotra - Capturing Articles](https://github.com/mpedramfar/zotra)
+-   [Ebib - Organizing literature before and after reading](https://joostkremers.github.io/ebib/)
+-   [Org-Roam - The missing link to create an effective reading list](https://www.orgroam.com/)
+-   [Bibtex Completion - Useful tools for manipulating literature](https://github.com/tmalsburg/helm-bibtex)
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+About the speaker:
+
+I'm Vidianos and I'm currently doing my PhD in KU Leuven in Belgium.
+Working on research means I have a need for good tools to help me with
+my research. I have been using Emacs for roughly 5 years now and I can
+confidently say it is the number one tool that helps me with this
+research. This talk will be all about how it helps me and about finally
+being able to remove external reference managers from my workflow,
+something I have wanted for years, but that I haven't managed to do
+before this.
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