From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_B=F6cker?= Subject: Re: Organizing a students live Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:16:48 +0100 Message-ID: <4B2C9A00.4000101@jboecker.de> References: <877hskh81j.fsf@uni-mainz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NLvQv-0004X7-3T for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:17:05 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NLvQp-0004WW-FN for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:17:03 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44867 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NLvQp-0004WT-AK for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:16:59 -0500 Received: from mail7.worldserver.net ([217.13.200.27]:47012) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NLvQo-0005cj-Sz for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:16:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <877hskh81j.fsf@uni-mainz.de> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Thomas Bach Cc: Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I study computer science in the first semester. I have one org file dedicated to university (~/org/studium.org). In this org file, there will be one top-level heading for each semester (currently there is only one - "Wintersemster 09/10 [2009-10-01 Do]--[2010-03-31 Mi]"). You see that I added the beginning and end of the semester as inactive timestamps. Under the heading for the semester, I have one subtree for general information such as vacation periods (denoted as a timespan: "<2009-12-21 Mo>--<2010-01-03 Sa>"), examens and links to the websites of my classes (to download the homework for the week). Following that, I have a subtree for each calendar week, which looks like this: ** Week 48 from [2009-11-23 Mo] to [2009-11-29 So] **** Class 1 General information about this week's curriculum sometimes goes here. ****** Class 1 Lecture <2009-11-23 Mo 16:00> [Link to the slides used in this lecture] Class notes for the first lecture of the week go here. When I did not type it directly in org-mode (with the view narrowed to this subtree), there will be a link to the hand-written notes (I use Xournal on a Tablet PC), to some scanned image of paper, or at least a reference to the script to tell me where in the curriculum we left off. ****** Class 1 Lecture <2009-11-25 Mi 16:00> Class notes for the second one go here. ****** TODO Class 1 Homework [Link to Homework PDF] [Link to my solution of the exercises (Xournal)] When this homework has been graded the following week, (a link to) the notes I took on exercises I had made mistakes in will go here. **** Class 2 (repeat the same structure for the other classes) At the end of this org file, there is a subtree named "Future", where the entries for the next weeks are ready to be moved to the end of the main tree. You can generate this fairly quickly if you create one "template" subtree and then use M-x org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift repeatedly to create a copy with all timestamps shifted one week forward. This system works very well for me so far. I have a folder structure similar to the subtree structure on disk (~/uni/semester/calendar-week/class[/homework]) where I store all the files I link to. This way, I can be sure that if I take ~/org/ and ~/uni/ with me, I have all of my most important data. I do not use repeating timestamps because having a separate subtree for each occurence of a lecture enables me to jump to the appropriate notes, etc. right from my agenda view. I have also tagged the nodes below each week by class and by type (Lecture, Exercise), so I could do queries like "show me all Lecture notes for Class 1", but so far I have not needed that. However, it does not hurt to have it in the template, I might use it later. Of course, the Homework entry gets assigned a DEADLINE when I download the exercise .pdf and add the link. I hope the above text is comprehensible enough; if there are any questions, feel free to ask! I would also be interested in how other students use Org. If it were not for org-mode, my class notes would be in a messy pile of paper instead of a few keystrokes away... Greetings from Germany, Jan