Managing the paper's metadata

Monday, January 25th, 2010 | Author:

Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?":

Annotations and other metadata issues

(You might not want to read this if you're not using Linux or if you're not a developer)
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Managing papers

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 | Author:

Today in the series "How to do XYZ with software?":

How to manage papers?

I have lots of PDFs on my hard-disk, and most of them is half-read or unread. Since I'm studying mathematics, these PDFs are lecture notes, research papers, my own notes and several more-or-less relevant books. How do I organise them? It's a problem.

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Linux, OCR and PDF – problem solved

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 | Author:

Imagine you've scanned some book into a PDF file on Linux, such that every pdf-page contains two book-pages and there is a lot of additional white-space and maybe the page orientation is wrong. And, worst of all, there is no full-text search, thus no full-text indexing for desktop search engines. I consider this problem solved on Linux!
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Managing personal notes

Monday, January 11th, 2010 | Author:

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How to manage personal notes?

Recently I've been looking (again) for some note-taking system that satisfies me. Searching across the blogs, I decided to share my experience with information-management tools with you.

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Nützliche LaTeX-Packages

Sunday, October 12th, 2008 | Author:

Vor kurzem habe ich einige nützliche LaTeX-Packages entdeckt, dir mir geholfen haben, meine Notizen aufzuschreiben und nützlich zu formatieren:
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