Collect Summaries in a Directory

As a result of the interviki definitions, all your PDF files, summaries, and notes will be collected in well defined places. The advantage of collecting your notes as plain text files in a single directory is that you can use standard text tools like grep to search those notes.

VIM provides the :vimgrep command that could be used for that. The VIM plugin trag serves as a wrapper around vimgrep that could come handy.

I personally use tSkeleton to create new files with a template. A template for summaries could look like this:

A newly created file will then look like this:

The BIB interviki points to the directory where the BibTeX files are located. You can thus jump easily from the summary to the BibTeX file and back again. After having filled in the standard place holders, such a summary could look like this: