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I'm sorry to be one of the people risking derailing the actual discussion. But there is a traditional plague in this world of using nearly meaningless filenames
by b6 11y ago
I'm sorry to be one of the people risking derailing the actual discussion. But there is a traditional plague in this world of using nearly meaningless filenames for academic papers. In this case, the filename is the concatenation of the authors' last names!
I very often have dozens of pdfs in my download directory whose names provide very little clue as to what they are. Authors of papers: it is perfectly OK to use meaningful filenames, I promise!
- sitkack 11y agohttp://www.ics.uci.edu/~andre/ics228s2006/ http://www.ics.uci.edu/~andre/ics228s2006/
- abecedarius 11y agoYeah, I make it a regular chore to rename all the recent downloads to their titles. Anyone have a handy script to help?
- sparkie 11y agoI use Calibre to organize papers. About 3/4 the time it can successfully extract the title and authors - I manually correct the mistakes it makes, fill in the gaps and tag them. The software then organizes them in directories based on this information in a user-defined way. It's not perfect. In particular it's missing tag hierarchies which would make it more intuitive to navigate to things without giving each paper dozens of tags and such.
- abecedarius 11y agoThanks. I don't like Calibre, but I'll look for a Python module or something to extract titles from pdfs.