References

Reference library for papers and books.

Organization

• BibTeX files (.bib) in git – metadata, searchable with rg
• PDFs in restic – binary, backed up
• Notes (.md) in git – your notes on each paper/book
• Filename convention: paper.bib + paper.pdf + paper.notes.md share a base name

Full-text search on PDFs

PDFs can’t be searched with rg directly. A Ruby script extracts text:

ruby build_pdf_index.rb
rg "lattice" references/.index/

The index is regeneratable and gitignored.