Mike Zamansky has another video in his Using Emacs Series available
for viewing. This video demonstrates the PDF-view workflow that he
developed to help him deal with applications to an honors program at
Hunter College.
I really like this video because it shows how he used Emacs to solve
an actual problem rather than just demonstrating an Emacs feature. The
problem is how to deal with (PDF-based) applications and sort them
into ACCEPT/REJECT/MAYBE… categories. Zamansky is very conscientious
about the application process and spends time getting additional
information that he adds as notes to the applications.
By using pdf-tools, he’s able to handle all this from Emacs and to
make annotations directly to the PDFs if he wants. The org-pdfview
lets him add org links to the PDFs so that they open in Emacs.
In addition to explaining his workflow, the video also serves as a
nice demonstration of pdf-tools. I use it all the time and can attest
that it’s a big improvement over the built in Docview. If you haven’t
tried it, take a look at the video to see it in action.
The video is 14 minutes, 40 seconds so plan accordingly.