# Org-mode and Org-Roam for Scholars and Researchers
Noorah Alhasan

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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.

- Slides/presentation: <https://github.com/nalhasan/emacsconf2020>

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- Actual start and end time (EST): Start: 2020-11-28T15.17.33; Q&A:
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# 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)

<https://github.com/nalhasan/emacsconf2020> for the
slides/presentation.

## How does the view for time blocking works?

## have you seen the project Papis? <https://github.com/papis/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&#x2026;.

You can create groups for collaborative projects in Zotero and this is
a plus. (thanks for the answers! I'll give it a try!).
- <https://github.com/papis/papis-zotero> 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&#x2026;?"  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).
- <https://github.com/alphapapa/org-sidebar> to keep track of todo's
   within a large file.
- Using org-gcal to sync gmail calendar with org-file
  <https://github.com/kidd/org-gcal.el/>.
- org-transclusion <https://github.com/nobiot/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?