TL;DR: the link to my notes Attending a lot of conferences is very interesting, but it is quite confusing to remember the exact papers/posters/presentations afterwards - note-taking is therefore essential for me. Carefully recording the most interesting (and sometimes trivial) publications.
It already came in useful in
- our journal club (as a suggestion for the next paper)
- uncertainty evaluation in the context of Human-Centred Data Analysis (HCDA)
- and many more related work sections…
I have therefore started to take notes last year in LaTex, but switched to an Obsidian-style system this year. I publish them automatically using Quartz, making it easy to share and discuss with peers.
Another aspect of recording the posters encountered at conferences is the necessity to record them in a high volume (like at the ICML). These are usually processed after conferences using a dedicated OCR script, which
- scrapes all available posters (usually from the conference websites),
- builds a TF-IDF index over the these,
- performs OCR on-device (using the MacOS APIs translated to Python),
- rectifies all pictures of the posters using the same APIs,
- performs lookup on either the prebuild system, ArXiV, or some Scholar wrapper,
- finally building the table automatically.
The notebook for the VINCI conference can be found here. Feel free to adapt it for your own purposes :)