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Ruby and elisp scripts I use to automatically catalog ebooks from a specific directory on my harddrive. WARNING: Not suitable for generic use yet, as there's some hardcoded stuff, use and adapt it at your own risk)

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The goal is to move pdf files from a specific directory to another one (in my case, my external HDD) and then catalog then in a specific org file, with tags and a link to the file location (and some tags).

Why? Because when buying/downloading PDF material, I'd often put them somewhere and just forget where they were. Also searching for files is a pain, specially if they are in an external media. Using org files added to the org Agenda as an indexing tool makes a lot of sense to me :)

It uses an external Ruby script to build the file list, and relisp for elisp<->ruby communication. Relisp is awesome!

I'll generalize and make it easier to use / install when I have some more free time. For now, use it at your own risk.

The same solution could have been done in a number of ways, including in pure elisp or with elisp + a shell script. However, relisp does the datatype conversion automatically, and this is a big plus.