# Does anybody use org-roam to take notes on books?

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**Created:** [September 26, 2020, 4:54am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/does-anybody-use-org-roam-to-take-notes-on-books/789 "2020-09-26T04:54:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 7:13am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/does-anybody-use-org-roam-to-take-notes-on-books/789/3 "2020-09-26T07:13:46Z")

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Yes, `org-roam-bibtex` combined with `org-ref` is great. You can search your reference materials with using “meta data” you maintain in `.bib` file (BibTeX data, synced with Zotero, for instance) – see the screen shot below for `org-ref` screen.

I am assuming this is what you mean by “track key pieces of bibliographical data” and “access/search by metadata”?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/orgroam/original/1X/28f170920e5613b5e1fafcac5d4c971a82e336b8.png)

You might find useful the [discussion](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/has-anyone-migrated-away-from-zotero-mendeley-to-just-an-org-based-solution-probably-org-ref/772/2) we have had recently, and my humble diagram that illustrates how these different applications work together.

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