Extract to plaintext -> org-remark -> TeX Template export vs pdftools, org-noter workflow

[SylvianHemus]

Cool project. What are your thoughts on this workflow? visavis org-noter and org-remark, pdftools:

• Grade paper
• Reply email literately with org-mime
• Create a literate bibliography (like an annotated bibliography but stronger, show sociological relations / metadata between authors and journals, related crossref stuff)

What if I want to be able to annotate using TeX?

• Use math typesetting
• Use different fonts
• Use highlighting and colour boxes
• Show off 1337 skills
• Different presentation based on task at hand

I don't think this is possible with pdftools. Which would motivate extracting text using ghostscript, then using org-remark, and exporting my annotations with a custom TeX format. I'm more of a plain text guy myself, and would like to use it whenever possible. this is a bit funny since the point of my workflow is to typeset nicely with TeX, and sometimes you miss data without seeing the graphics on the page. I don't think this is an easy workflow to make definite because of problems like that.

Perhaps the following is a good idea:

• Use ghostscript to extract plain text from pdf; doc2txt for word docs; org-remark for commenting on colleagues work in progress, grading papers, emails, generating research and bibliographical documents containing annotative metadata. Create TeX template for exporting org-remark annotated org buffer
• Use pdftools / org-noter / org-pdftools for taking notes on textbooks, published articles, use org-roam to keep track of tags and related ideas

Thoughts?

[brucejuz]

It would be nice, if you can record a video to show your workflow!