My Mathematics PhD research workflow: LaTeX notes and instant pdf referencing

Post by evanb » Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 3:12 AM UTC

amathres_info wrote: post #19

I'm another academic mathematician. I'm not really convinced that all this would be a time-saver for me as far as research productivity; maybe I'm just old-fashioned but I just have a few folders for paper notes and that's it. But certainly this could vary from person to person. To me, the place for the real time savings is organizing your teaching workflow. If you're a grad student, make sure to get on top of that A…

Post by podiki » Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 5:37 AM UTC

amathres_info wrote: post #35

Another tip: the vast majority of ArXiv papers have the LaTeX source available under "other formats". I used to download those instead of the pdfs for better searching. Now I don't really bother keeping a personal collection of papers, however. Downloading the LaTeX source also has the advantage that you can see the comments the authors made that don't show in the pdf version. Sometimes appalling: "% Author 1: Is thi…

Post by mixedmath » Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 6:13 AM UTC

mixedmath wrote: post #44

rcap wrote: post #2

Author here, if you have any questions, feel free to ask them. It really is amazing how hard it is just to retrieve the currently opened pdf file and its page number in a pdf viewer. Some pdf viewers (Like Zathura) provide this via DBus, but even very common ones like Evince don't. I managed to find a way using gvfs, although it's a bit of a hack. For others (e.g. Mendeley), I have no idea on how to do this... Anybod…

On recent-ish versions of evince it is possible to do a bit more via dbus. For example, forward and reverse synctex search between evince and vim over dbus is done at [1]. I use this when I use evince, but I acknowledge that it has stupid flaws. [1]: https://github.com/peterbjorgensen/sved

Post by DominikPeters » Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 6:58 AM UTC

godelski wrote: post #6

Does anyone have a good reference for Tikz? I feel like I'm pretty good at it (at least better than most my peers) but I also believe it takes a significant amount of time to create interesting pictures and do even basic things that PPT or other basic tools can do easily. I want the full editing power of tikz but doing the basic parts is tough (same with manim, though lower barrier to entry). As for writing documents…

Post by PartiallyTyped » Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 8:53 AM UTC

mr_mitm wrote: post #46

amathres_info wrote: post #35

Another tip: the vast majority of ArXiv papers have the LaTeX source available under "other formats". I used to download those instead of the pdfs for better searching. Now I don't really bother keeping a personal collection of papers, however. Downloading the LaTeX source also has the advantage that you can see the comments the authors made that don't show in the pdf version. Sometimes appalling: "% Author 1: Is thi…

You just strengthened my opinion that PDF is a format of the past, considering people prefer to read the LaTeX source instead of the finished document.