Open note and pdf side by side

[kaibagley]

Hey guys,

I'm not super great at elisp so I'm unsure of how to go about this, but what I'd like is to run a function and have the minibuffer allow me to select a citation, then open an org-roam note, and the references pdf side-by-side.

Here's what I have so far:

(defun kb/citar-open-note-and-pdf (citekey)
  "Open the note and PDF side-by-side for the given CITEKEY"
  (interactive (list (citar-select-refs :multiple nil)))

  (delete-other-windows)

  (citar-open-note citekey)
  (split-window-right)

  (other-window 1)
  (citar-open-files citekey)
  (other-window 1))

But this obviously wont work as citar-open-* doesn't work for non-existent notes.

As a tasty bonus, I'd like it to have similar behaviour to org-agenda-window-setup 'only-window where when I close a buffer, the buffer/window arrangement returns to how it was beforehand.

Thanks very much!!