Xjyuk

I have some macros I use a lot, mostly just for my digital note keeping. Because of the nature of these macros, I could use a specific versions of these. For example I mention some file names throughout a document such as workdocument which assigns them a specific url, and I would like to have a list of these files at the end of the document which I can just use to copy paste into some unix terminal tool. I could parse the file with a programming language to get these, but with multiple includes it isn't something I prefer.

The contents of these commands aren't references as one would semantically understand it, so I would like to avoid using bibtex.

If this can be accomplished with a feature that only exists in any of lualatex/xelatex/pdflatex, that is fine by me.

My tex file, in the simplest sense, looks like the following:

documentclass[english]scrartcl

newcommand*thingofnote[1]#1 % Somehow add the input to an 'array' to be printed at the end as well?
begindocument

sectionSection A

A thing of note is thingofnotex, while another thing of note is thingofnotey.

sectionSection B

One must not forget about thingofnotez.

sectionAll The Things

% Here, create a list of all the things of note previously included in the document.
% Even this output would be acceptable, as long as it is not done manually:
% xyz

enddocument

In the real document there are more commands and multiple includes.

This produces,

I would like to produce a version of,

Thanks in advance.

For Dr. Seuss lovers, this approach will actually create macros thing1 and thing2! (in csname form, of course)

documentclass[english]scrartcl
usepackagepgffor
newcounterthings
newcommand*thingofnote[1]#1%
 stepcounterthingsexpandaftergdefcsname thingthethingsendcsname#1
newcommandlistthings%
 beginenumerate
 foreachz in1,...,thethingsitem csname thingzendcsname
 endenumerate

begindocument

sectionSection A

A thing of note is thingofnotex, while another thing of note is thingofnotey.

sectionSection B

One must not forget about thingofnotez.

sectionAll The Things

listthings

enddocument

The approach can be generalized to multi-paragraph things of note as follows:

documentclass[english]scrartcl
usepackagepgffor
newcounterthings
newcommandthingofnote[1]#1%
 stepcounterthingsexpandaftergdefcsname thingthethingsendcsname#1
newcommandlistthings%
 beginenumerate
 foreachz in1,...,thethingsitem csname thingzendcsname
 endenumerate

begindocument

sectionSection A

A thing of note is thingofnotex

and new paragraph of more x, while another thing of note is thingofnotey.

sectionSection B

One must not forget about thingofnotez.

sectionAll The Things

listthings

enddocument

Using etoolbox's docsvlist:

documentclass[english]scrartcl
usepackageetoolbox

newcommandmylistofstuff
newcommand*thingofnote[1]%
 gapptomylistofstuff,#1% Add to list
 #1% write on paper
begindocument

sectionSection A

A thing of note is thingofnotex, while another thing of note is thingofnotey.

sectionSection B

One must not forget about thingofnotez.

sectionAll The Things

beginenumerate
 defdo#1item #1
 expandafterdocsvlistexpandaftermylistofstuff
endenumerate

enddocument