Helm-bibtex support for org-ref-style notes file is imminent. about org-ref

[jkitchin]

Thanks for the heads up. I don't use notes too often, but if anything comes up I will keep this in mind.

[jagrg]

@jkitchin we are unable to fully change the notes title template because drawer and links are inserted automatically. The changes in jagrg@a18abde gives more flexibility but keeps the original format, except for the pdf, which can be accessed via the cite link anyway. What do you think?

[tmalsburg]

I may not understand org-ref well enough, but I assumed that the new code in helm-bibtex could handle notes such that this doesn't need to be duplicated in org-ref.

[jagrg]

@tmalsburg this is needed for opening notes via cite links.

[tmalsburg]

Why can't you simply call helm-bibtex-edit-notes in org-ref-open-bibtex-notes after the key is copied to the clipboard?

[jagrg]

You are probably right. Maybe John can comment.

[jkitchin]

@jagrg your suggestion looks fine. I made that change. I am ambivalent on one file per note or all notes in one file. I decided to create a new customization for org-ref-notes-function that allows users to specify how they want to open notes at point, either a function that does the old way (Default) or helm-bibtex-edit-notes. I think that covers everyone.

[tmalsburg]

There is a misunderstanding. I was not proposing that org-ref switches to one file per note. Helm-bibtex allows to use both kinds of notes. This means that helm-bibtex-edit-notes could be used to implement the org-ref way of handling notes, however, it could also be used to do one file per note if that is preferred. Either way, it would be redundant and potentially more error-prone to have two implementations of the same functionality.

[jkitchin]

I see. So it should be fine to have helm-bibtex-edit-notes do the work, and leave the configuration on helm-bibtex then. Can you point me to the relevant configuration variables?

[tmalsburg]

If you prefer not to use helm-bibtex' implementation of notes handling, that is of course perfectly fine with me. Otherwise: To get org-ref style notes, you have to set helm-bibtex-notes-path to point to the notes file and you have to set the template for new notes using helm-bibtex-notes-template-one-file. Another relevant variable is helm-bibtex-notes-key-pattern which is used to find BibTeX entries in the notes file, but I think you don't have to change it because its current default is consistent with org-ref format.