Mendeley

I use Mendeley for my reference and citation management. I use TexClipse for (most) of my $latex \LaTeX$ editing, ViM otherwise. I use Xelatex / pdflatex for project building. These don’t always work so well together. One issue I came across was that Mendeley can insert some weird Unicode whitespace characters that ‘disappear’ in TexClipse / Vim, but break xelatex/pdflatex. Easy solution: set the project encoding in TexClipse to ignore these characters upon pasting. ...

Problem: Had two citations with slightly different information appearing in library.bib, causing bibtex to shit itself, but only one citation appeared in the desktop / web interfaces Cause: ‘Deleted’ Library items still appear in library.bib, so old (custom) version of citation still persisted after being ‘removed’ Solution: Empty trash

** So today is the start of the rest of your life. Seems kind of appropriate today. Had a meeting with my PhD Supervisor to start to develop my project. Of course at this point it would help to explain what the project is, but I can’t right now, so shush. What was innocuous about the meeting was the relatively small pile of papers that I was handed; that was until I flicked through and saw that the actual material he wanted researched had been highlighted in the bibloigraphies. In fact, it would have been more efficient to highlight the ones NOT to read. ...