Thanks for your suggestions. I got to many books and articles for a table, but using tables for statistics could be usefull. :)
Le 17 mai 2022 01:28:47 GMT+02:00, William Denton <w...@pobox.com> a écrit : >On 16 May 2022, Sébastien Gendre wrote: > >> My goals are to: >> * List books and articles I want to read >> * Track books I have to buy and which I already own >> * Track books and articles I have read >> * Take notes on books I have read >> >> The following is what I plan to do. >> >> The idea is to use an Org-mode heading for each book and the >> properties of the books become the ones of the Org-mode heading. The >> synopsis of the book can be in the body of the heading. > >I use Org to track my reading, but keep less information, so a simple table is >enough. In 2015 I wrote up how it looked: > >https://www.miskatonic.org/2015/01/01/reading-diary-in-org/ > >The basic annual reading list is still the same, but I'm doing a lot more with >the data now, using R to generate charts and other analysis. > >Your plan looks very much like something I saw on Planet Emacslife¹ a week or >two ago ... but now I can't find it because it scrolled off the bottom. Maybe >someone else here saw it? Or is the one who wrote it? It was someone using >properties to store information about the books and then using a column view >to display all the information in a table. > >Could you fit everything into a table? That's simpler than using properties. >But if you need lots of bibliographic detail, I guess that's the best solution >in Org. > >If you were willing to look outside Org then I'd recommend Zotero,² which is >designed to keep track of all that; there are Emacs tools to talk to Zotero, >or you could dump a BibTeX file and use Org's citation system. If I were >doing what you want to do, I'd keep basic lists in tables in Org, keep notes >on books in structured headings grouped by subject and then chronological >order, and use Zotero for bibliographic management. > >Good luck! Whatever you get started with, it'll be easy to refine and adapt >in a month or six depending on what you need. > >Bill > >¹ https://planet.emacslife.com/ >² https://www.zotero.org/ > >-- >William Denton >https://www.miskatonic.org/ >Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator. >Toronto, Canada
