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# Transcript


Introduction

[[!template new="1" text="""Hello, this is Christopher Howard,""" start="00:00:00.000" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and welcome to my talk,""" start="00:00:04.940" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""&quot;Informal Reference Tracking.&quot;""" start="00:00:06.520" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""This is a workflow talk,""" start="00:00:08.800" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""so I need to explain a little bit about""" start="00:00:10.574" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""what my needs were.""" start="00:00:12.240" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I am not a professional scholar or academic,""" start="00:00:14.840" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but there are a number of subjects""" start="00:00:18.760" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that I'm interested in,""" start="00:00:20.200" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and I occasionally like to write""" start="00:00:21.607" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""gemlog posts about them.""" start="00:00:23.240" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So I needed some way to keep track of references.""" start="00:00:25.600" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""References to webpage articles, references to books,""" start="00:00:28.680" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""pages in books, and notes about them.""" start="00:00:32.960" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Something that was searchable,""" start="00:00:37.280" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but also something that was quick and easy to use,""" start="00:00:39.480" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and something that I could set up quickly.""" start="00:00:42.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And the approach I took, it only took me""" start="00:00:45.200" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""about an hour or two to figure out""" start="00:00:47.360" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""how to put it together.""" start="00:00:49.520" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I do want to emphasize""" start="00:00:52.160" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that there are better ways to do this.""" start="00:00:53.840" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I'm not recommending you use my code""" start="00:00:56.520" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""or follow my exact approach.""" start="00:00:58.960" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""In particular, what I'm doing was meant to be done""" start="00:01:02.120" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""with Org's built-in capture""" start="00:01:05.940" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and templates functionality,""" start="00:01:09.240" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""so that's something that's more flexible,""" start="00:01:11.800" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""programmable, and there's also a lot of add-ins""" start="00:01:14.907" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that can be tied into that.""" start="00:01:21.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""For example, tools that allow you to search for,""" start="00:01:23.960" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""you know, feed in a URL, and it automatically""" start="00:01:31.320" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""pulls all the reference data for you.""" start="00:01:34.480" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And there's tools out there""" start="00:01:38.240" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that are really meant for scientific writing,""" start="00:01:39.760" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""so if you do this professionally,""" start="00:01:43.120" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""you may need to keep track of dozens of details""" start="00:01:46.760" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""for each reference""" start="00:01:49.960" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and then have some fancy system to generate that""" start="00:01:51.080" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""into your, or output that into your paper.""" start="00:01:55.320" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So there are better systems,""" start="00:02:00.800" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but this is what worked for me and what was easy.""" start="00:02:02.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]

Tip about completion frameworks

[[!template new="1" text="""I do want to emphasize that if you haven't,""" start="00:02:06.040" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""you really want to learn how to use helm-mode""" start="00:02:11.320" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""H-E-L-M, or one of the similar systems in Emacs""" start="00:02:14.640" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that does fuzzy search on Emacs commands.""" start="00:02:20.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""For example, in Helm here,""" start="00:02:26.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I input one keychord, and then I just have to remember""" start="00:02:29.340" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""a few characters of some command,""" start="00:02:39.007" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and they don't even have to be right next to each other,""" start="00:02:40.720" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""like H-O-C will bring up `helm-occur`.""" start="00:02:43.480" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""That's based on its algorithms""" start="00:02:47.640" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of what I most likely meant""" start="00:02:51.360" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and the ones that I've used in the past.""" start="00:02:53.000" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So it usually brings up the command that I want,""" start="00:02:55.160" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""or the one that I want""" start="00:02:57.920" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""is one or two spots away in the entry.""" start="00:02:59.580" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""That just saves me a lot of time""" start="00:03:03.080" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""[and] a lot of memorization.""" start="00:03:05.074" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So if you haven't learned Helm""" start="00:03:06.960" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""or a similar system for Emacs, you really want to.""" start="00:03:09.120" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]

References file overview

[[!template new="1" text="""So what is my approach?""" start="00:03:14.920" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Well, basically, what it comes down to is really""" start="00:03:18.240" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""fundamentally nothing more than just a list""" start="00:03:24.880" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of Org entries in a file.""" start="00:03:27.307" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And there's one entry per reference.""" start="00:03:30.640" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Fundamentally, that's all it is.""" start="00:03:35.580" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""But I'll go over the parts.""" start="00:03:37.207" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""You can see there's the title for the entry,""" start="00:03:39.207" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and that's not necessarily""" start="00:03:43.080" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the title of the book or the article,""" start="00:03:44.800" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but that's my perspective on it,""" start="00:03:47.400" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that's what I want to remember about it,""" start="00:03:50.840" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and what I'll be looking for later""" start="00:03:52.720" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""when I do a search on my references.""" start="00:03:54.560" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""There's also in here the use of Org's tags""" start="00:03:56.560" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""here to the right of the title,""" start="00:04:06.660" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""very handy for searching for entries later.""" start="00:04:08.274" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I use some Org properties attached to each entry.""" start="00:04:12.040" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I automatically add in here an ID""" start="00:04:18.160" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that can be useful if you want to""" start="00:04:21.740" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""link entries together later.""" start="00:04:24.074" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I automatically add in here the date""" start="00:04:27.800" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that the entry was created,""" start="00:04:30.400" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""which can be useful to me if things""" start="00:04:31.840" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""got sorted in a different order at some point,""" start="00:04:35.700" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I could still look through""" start="00:04:38.360" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the most recent entries that I had made""" start="00:04:39.940" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""if I wanted to do that for some reason.""" start="00:04:42.507" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And sometimes I add in this publication year field""" start="00:04:45.040" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""with the idea that one day I might want to do""" start="00:04:48.640" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""a search for entries based on the publication year""" start="00:04:52.720" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of the book or the article,""" start="00:04:55.840" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""say, only to use recent references""" start="00:04:57.360" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""or something like that.""" start="00:05:00.774" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And then down here below the properties""" start="00:05:03.080" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""is where I paste in the URL to the webpage, or""" start="00:05:05.360" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""type in the title and author of the book""" start="00:05:10.080" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""on the pages, maybe the pages that were relevant,""" start="00:05:13.007" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the pages of the periodical, or something like that.""" start="00:05:16.960" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And I could put anything that I want down here,""" start="00:05:21.640" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""some other notes about what's important""" start="00:05:23.920" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""about this article to me.""" start="00:05:25.840" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So fundamentally, that's all it is.""" start="00:05:29.940" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Of course, I've added in a bit of convenience code""" start="00:05:32.200" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to make this go a lot faster""" start="00:05:35.240" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""rather than typing all this out.""" start="00:05:37.080" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]

The Emacs Lisp code

[[!template new="1" text="""For that, I'll switch back to my init.el file.""" start="00:05:39.320" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""There's really just five functions.""" start="00:05:45.880" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""The first two here are ones""" start="00:05:49.480" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that I've adapted off the Internet.""" start="00:05:52.840" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Honestly, I can't remember""" start="00:05:54.560" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""exactly where that I got them from,""" start="00:05:56.160" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but basically, they're just some functions""" start="00:05:58.240" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""for making a block of text writable or readable.""" start="00:06:00.240" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Writable or not writable, I should say.""" start="00:06:04.240" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""The idea there is that""" start="00:06:09.300" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""when I'm creating a new entry,""" start="00:06:12.200" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I don't want to accidentally delete""" start="00:06:13.480" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""or write over some earlier entries that I've made.""" start="00:06:16.307" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So I use a little bit of Emacs functionality for that.""" start="00:06:18.960" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And then here are the three reference functions""" start="00:06:24.880" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that I've actually written.""" start="00:06:29.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Really trivial, basic stuff here.""" start="00:06:32.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""The core of it is the `new-reference` function.""" start="00:06:35.040" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Basically, what that does is""" start="00:06:41.800" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it opens up the references file,""" start="00:06:44.840" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""jumps to the end of the reference file,""" start="00:06:47.560" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""starts a new entry, inserts the asterisk.""" start="00:06:52.040" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It jumps back to the previous text,""" start="00:06:57.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and whatever previous text there is,""" start="00:07:01.520" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it makes that read-only.""" start="00:07:03.474" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Again, so that I don't accidentally delete that,""" start="00:07:04.880" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""or cut, or type over it, or something""" start="00:07:08.120" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""when I'm making a new reference.""" start="00:07:10.800" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Then it goes back to the new reference,""" start="00:07:14.580" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""automatically adds in a unique ID for that,""" start="00:07:17.680" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and then automatically stamps it with""" start="00:07:21.340" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the date the entry was created — today's date.""" start="00:07:25.360" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Now, I've got two other functions here.""" start="00:07:29.000" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""One is `view-references`,""" start="00:07:32.760" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""which does nothing but open up the reference file""" start="00:07:34.540" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and switch to that buffer""" start="00:07:37.807" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""if you're not already on it.""" start="00:07:39.400" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And then there's one other here, `edit-references`,""" start="00:07:42.540" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""which does the exact same thing except for""" start="00:07:45.880" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it also goes over all the text in the buffer""" start="00:07:50.160" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and makes it writable.""" start="00:07:53.560" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So if I really do want to edit those other references,""" start="00:07:55.040" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I've got a function to quickly make that possible.""" start="00:07:58.120" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]

Example reference to Elfeed article

[[!template new="1" text="""Let me give an example of this.""" start="00:08:02.720" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I type in here, new reference.""" start="00:08:07.500" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Now I've jumped to the end of my references file.""" start="00:08:13.980" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""See, it's ready to take the title.""" start="00:08:16.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Well, I guess I need to have something,""" start="00:08:19.080" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""some content, to put in here.""" start="00:08:21.720" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Let's say I was looking through Elfeed,""" start="00:08:23.660" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and let's say I found this interesting article""" start="00:08:28.880" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""about Mars earthquakes.""" start="00:08:31.600" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Let's say I open it up [and]""" start="00:08:38.220" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I read through the article.""" start="00:08:40.007" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""First, I'd figure out what it is""" start="00:08:41.160" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that I find interesting about this, what it is that""" start="00:08:43.840" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I'm going to want to remember and look up later.""" start="00:08:47.260" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So I come up with a quick title based on that.""" start="00:08:51.580" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Let's go back to the references with `view-reference`.""" start="00:08:57.480" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And, let's just call it""" start="00:09:01.900" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""&quot;Study of Mars Earthquake.&quot;""" start="00:09:05.674" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Now I'm going to also want to put in some tags.""" start="00:09:13.880" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""On my system, that's done with""" start="00:09:18.200" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Control C, Control Q (`C-c C-q`).""" start="00:09:21.107" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And I can put in some tags.""" start="00:09:23.640" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I like to go ahead and insert the colons.""" start="00:09:25.520" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""You can leave those out,""" start="00:09:29.160" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but they're going to get added anyway,""" start="00:09:30.800" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""so I'm in the habit of using them.""" start="00:09:32.560" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Let's say we'll call this 'Astronomy' as one tag,""" start="00:09:36.780" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and the next tag could be 'Planets'.""" start="00:09:41.120" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""If I wanted to use a tag""" start="00:09:47.060" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that was more than one word in the tag,""" start="00:09:48.400" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I'd need to use underscores or something like that.""" start="00:09:50.400" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""If I wanted a tag that was 'Mars Earthquakes',""" start="00:09:53.540" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I could do it like that, but that's kind of silly.""" start="00:10:00.500" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Now I try not to be too clever with the tags.""" start="00:10:05.060" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I don't spend a lot of time thinking about them.""" start="00:10:08.660" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I just come up with some general buckets""" start="00:10:10.600" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to throw things in.""" start="00:10:13.107" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""You can see the tags were added there,""" start="00:10:15.020" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to the right of the title.""" start="00:10:16.880" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Now you can see down here under PROPERTIES,""" start="00:10:19.380" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the ID has already been added,""" start="00:10:23.400" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the Date_Created has been added.""" start="00:10:25.320" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Sometimes, I'll like to put in the publication year,""" start="00:10:27.040" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and for that, I use the `org-set-property` command.""" start="00:10:30.200" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Publication_Year, this year in this case.""" start="00:10:38.140" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And then I just need to paste in the URL.""" start="00:10:43.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I do that manually.""" start="00:10:46.680" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I use Org's bracket format for that.""" start="00:10:48.080" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So I start that, go back to the article,""" start="00:10:53.480" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""copy the URL, paste that in.""" start="00:10:57.640" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""If I want, I can add it in the title""" start="00:11:02.100" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""with the second pair of brackets here.""" start="00:11:04.480" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Don't have to, but often like to.""" start="00:11:07.460" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Close that off, and there it is.""" start="00:11:14.200" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""That was really it.""" start="00:11:18.560" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I add a return on the end here,""" start="00:11:20.880" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""just so the next entry comes out with the right spacing.""" start="00:11:22.120" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""But really, that's it,""" start="00:11:26.620" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and typically, when I'm not explaining it,""" start="00:11:28.307" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that only takes 20 seconds or so, or 30 seconds.""" start="00:11:31.000" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Pretty quick. Pretty easy.""" start="00:11:37.500" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]

Searching the references

[[!template new="1" text="""What about searching later?""" start="00:11:41.540" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Well, often the easiest thing is just do a simple,""" start="00:11:45.540" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""boring incremental search.""" start="00:11:50.474" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I usually know roughly""" start="00:11:54.640" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""what it is that I'm looking for already.""" start="00:11:55.880" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""If I was looking for that wildflower article,""" start="00:11:58.500" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I could just do an incremental search for wildflowers""" start="00:12:02.380" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and jump through that. It's pretty simple.""" start="00:12:06.000" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Not very impressive, but honestly, most of the time""" start="00:12:07.920" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that gets me there pretty quick.""" start="00:12:13.200" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Sometimes I find it useful to do an Occur search,""" start="00:12:16.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""more specifically a Helm Occur search.""" start="00:12:20.360" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""If I use the `helm-occur` command,""" start="00:12:23.240" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""then I like to use this to search by tag.""" start="00:12:31.260" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""That's where it really becomes handy.""" start="00:12:34.680" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Let's say I want to narrow it down""" start="00:12:36.760" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to all my astronomy references""" start="00:12:39.207" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and then narrow it down a little bit more to planets.""" start="00:12:42.640" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I can put spaces in between and it still works.""" start="00:12:50.040" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""You can see here in one window,""" start="00:12:54.120" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it gives me the bottom window there.""" start="00:12:57.200" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It's giving…, just because of the way""" start="00:13:00.240" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the tags are formatted with the title, it gives me""" start="00:13:03.480" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""a list of all the titles that have those tags.""" start="00:13:06.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And I usually find what I want pretty quick""" start="00:13:09.520" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""by just tapping through here.""" start="00:13:11.520" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Once I find the one that I think I want,""" start="00:13:13.400" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I press enter, and now I'm focused on just that entry.""" start="00:13:16.500" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""There is some advanced functionality, I believe,""" start="00:13:24.140" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that I used in the past where you could search""" start="00:13:26.960" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""based on the property fields.""" start="00:13:29.960" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So do something like search for publication —""" start="00:13:33.120" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the most recent publications in the last 10 years.""" start="00:13:37.880" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""There's some kind of advanced syntax for that,""" start="00:13:42.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""which I used once or twice.""" start="00:13:46.200" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Honestly, I use that so infrequently""" start="00:13:48.220" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that I have to go back to the Emacs manual""" start="00:13:51.400" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and figure it out each time, and figure out again""" start="00:13:54.840" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""how I did that the last time.""" start="00:13:57.740" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""But since I do it only once""" start="00:13:59.880" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""every three or four months, it's not a problem.""" start="00:14:02.000" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So I'm not going to go over that today.""" start="00:14:06.680" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""That's pretty much it in a nutshell.""" start="00:14:11.520" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Again, the code that I wrote, this specific approach""" start="00:14:16.480" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""is not really what I'm recommending.""" start="00:14:19.974" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""But here it is if you really do want to use it.""" start="00:14:24.280" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Maybe I can make a link to the URL""" start="00:14:31.160" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and share that in the chat room or something.""" start="00:14:36.240" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""But I consider this to be trivial code.""" start="00:14:40.060" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So just use that if you want to use it.""" start="00:14:46.760" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I should be signing off here now.""" start="00:14:49.800" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I should be in the chat room, in the IRC chat room,""" start="00:14:53.440" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""or you can reach out to me by email if you'd like.""" start="00:14:58.260" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Thank you very much.""" start="00:15:01.920" video="mainVideo-ref" id="subtitle"]]



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