Re: Alternative to Mendeley

[Richard Fieldsend]

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On 31/08/13 22:35, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
> Hi.  I use Emacs and Auctex.  For my academic research, so far I
> have made notes in several files - one for each paper.  Several
> people have recommended Mendeley to me.  Mendeley is proprietary
> (even though it is gratis) and I prefer open source.  I only
> tolerate proprietary software if it is much better than the open
> alternative.  Can you recommend a good alternative to Mendeley? 
> Integration with Emacs is a plus but not mandatory.  But it must be
> something I can learn (the basics) in an afternoon.
> 
> Regards
> 
> -- The sooner we fight global heating the lesser the cost.
> 

The obvious answer as you are using Emacs and AucTeX is to use the
built in tool. BibTeX is part of LaTeX, and AucTeX includes 'RefTeX'
which allows you to look up citations and add them into your paper.

Some of the features will be less than you will find in Mendeley, but
you can add notes for each BibTeX record (notes field).

RefTeX also allows you to internally reference the documents, so you
can link within the document on the basis of the page numbers, section
etc, so it has lots of extra functionality.

Hope that helps.

Richard
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