Org-noter

ROAM_REFS: https://github.com/org-noter/org-noter

Primary upstream repository of Org-noter.

• Org-noter: an interleaving/note-taking package for documents

Org-noter

, by Gonçalo Santos, was inspired by the now-orphaned

Interleave

package, by Sebastian Christ. In Sebastian's words (with minor edits):

In the past, textbooks were sometimes published as interleaved editions.  That meant, each page was followed by a blank page and ambitious students/scholars had the ability to take their notes directly in their copy of the textbook.  Newton and Kant were prominent representatives of this technique.  [find reference]

Nowadays, textbooks (or lecture materials) come in PDF format.  Although almost every PDF Reader has the ability to add some notes to the PDF itself, it is not as powerful as it could be.  This is what this Emacs minor mode tries to accomplish.  It presents your PDF side by side with an Org Mode buffer of your notes, narrowed down to just those passages that are relevant to this particular page in the document viewer.

Org-noter's purpose is to let you create notes that are kept in sync when you scroll through the document, but that are external to it - the notes themselves live in an Org-mode file. As such, this leverages the power of Org-mode (the notes may have outlines, latex fragments, babel, etc…) while acting like notes that are made inside the document. Also, taking notes is very simple: just press

i

and annotate away!

Org-noter is compatible with DocView, PDF Tools, Nov.el, and DJVU-image-mode. These modes make it possible to annotate PDF, EPUB, Microsoft Office, DVI, PS, OpenDocument, and DJVU formatted files. Note that PDF support is our prime goal. Other format have been supported by other contributors, but we need code contributions from users of other formats to maintain/progress usability with those formats.

ROAM_REFS: https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter

Original repository for Org-noter.

ROAM_REFS: https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter/issues/173