# Org-mode and Org-Roam for Scholars and Researchers Noorah Alhasan [[!template id=vid src="https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/emacsconf/2020/emacsconf-2020--17-org-mode-and-org-roam-for-scholars-and-researchers--noorah-alhasan.webm"]] [Download .webm video, 720p, 229MB](https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/emacsconf/2020/emacsconf-2020--17-org-mode-and-org-roam-for-scholars-and-researchers--noorah-alhasan.webm) Org-mode improved so much over the years, and the use-cases in org-mode are vast and highly technical. There is something for everyone in org-mode, and it's important to sift through all of these features and figure out what's best for a given situation or specific users. Therefore, I will be targeting academics and scholars that are engaging with literature in the early stages of a project or their academic careers. Academics and scholars engage with complex ideas and unstructured research workflows. I believe that org-mode can add more structure to the madness, and I will use this talk to clarify a possible solution to reduce such complexity. I propose a research workflow framework that utilizes org-mode, its raw form, and its many associated packages. However, the main package I will be mostly talking about is Org-Roam, and the way its underlying principles will revolutionize the research workflow. This presentation will help researchers organize and build their knowledge database in a streamlined and effective way. The research workflow is presented in three phases: planning, note-taking, and reference management. I will talk briefly about the packages and special-use cases for each stage and learned lessons along the way. Finally, the presentation concludes with future considerations and possible org-mode features. - Actual start and end time (EST): Start 2020-11-28T15.17.33; Q&A: 2020-11-28T15.32.18 End 2020-11-28T15.39.00 - Slides/presentation: # Questions ## I use org-roam-bibtex to take notes on particular academic papers in conjuction with org-noter. This means all notes for a given paper are in one org file. However while it is possible to link to headings within a file, there is no functionality to easily search through and link to these subheadings. What do you do to overcome this? I've only superficially looked at org-rifle as a possible method. ## Whats this presentation software? Looks really cool. beamer (LaTeX) for the slides/presentation ## How does the view for time blocking works? ## have you seen the project papis ? I think the author is working on an emacs package, what would be your thoughts? (it's a zotero alternative) "Powerful and highly extensible command-line based document and bibliography manager." ## Did you try using ebib instead of zotero? if so, is zotero better in some way? Zotero has a lot of plugins you can play with and so far it's been great Some people have been using a connector between Emacs & Zotero… You can create groups for collaborative projects in Zotero and this is a plus. (thanks for the answers! I'll give it a try!) - maybe useful ^^ ## Do you have any suggestions on what subjects/things should be tags/separate org-roam files for cross-linking? I've been struggling with whether making almost every term be a link or only using links for broader subjects. "Should I be combining ideas together into one…?" So far I've been using the Org Roam default way. ## Meta question: is there a place where people are collaborating on research "about" Emacs? Definitely interested, but there is no place (yet!) # Notes - org-inlinetasks - if you're working on a big org file that you keep coming back to, it's better to keep track of todo's related to that file within that file (e.g. a paper that you're writing) - to keep track of todo's within a large file - using org-gcal to sync gmail calendar with org-file - org-transclusion to show (parts of) other files inline and allow editing in a separate mini-buffer - There is a Slack channel for org-roam link/backlink pls?