From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sven Bretfeld" Subject: Re: how do scientists use org mode? Date: 1 Feb 2012 09:41:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87hazb3pza.fsf@gmx.ch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57930) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsVl8-0001B2-SR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:41:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsVl2-0000XD-Gr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:41:42 -0500 Received: from mi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de ([134.147.64.33]:57537 helo=mx5.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsVl1-0000Vq-NL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:41:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: (GMX Christoph's message of "Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:21:33 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: GMX Christoph 13 Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Christoph For my scientific work (I'm an Indologist) I use orgmode in three ways: 1. _Project planning and calendar management_ That's just the normal thing. I use the GTD approach, extended by some specialties like the tags :BIGROCK: (most important project to work on this week) and :MIT: (most important thing of the day). 2. _Writing papers_ To me this is one of the most important powers of orgmode: work on papers and have Todos inserted into the text directly. So, if you have referenced a book but you don't have it at hand at the moment, you can do: This is a paraphrase you need a reference for (Smith 2009: ??). TODO Check the page in Smith's book :LIBRARY: I always add files with draft papers to org-agenda-files. Next time I'm at the library and have MobileOrg with me, the Todo shows up and I can check the book. I know of no other wordprocessor or editor which can do this. 3. _Collecting reference material_ Whenever I read a book (since some months I usually read ebooks or pdfs on my tablet), I find passages I need for present or future papers. With the ezReader app (Android) you can mark these passages and send them to MobileOrg. When I come home, the new material has already synced and waits to be tagged and refiled. I use org-files for each paper I'm working on as databases for references. The header is a short description of the content of each reference. Keywords and bibliographic data are put into drawers that can be queried. I have an Emacs macro that automatically transforms the raw entry into the right markup. Welcome to org Sven GMX Christoph 13 writes: > Hi > this is my first post here and although I am evaluating org mode with great interest, I am also asking myself in which way other scientists are making use of org mode. It will take a while to get my head around how to accomplish certain things in org mode but for the moment I am intrigued by *why* one would want to approach the problem of organizing one's research with org mode and in which way. > Are you putting exclusively your todos in, well, your todo file and perhaps keep project-related things, such as data and progress, notes, ideas etc. somewhere else? Or do you embed your notes and todos within their original context, i.e. is org mode your one-stop solution for data management? Do you maintain a separate file for every major project you are responsible for or involved in or throw everything into one or few humungous files and differentiate using hierarchies and tags? > In the past I have hit some road blocks not so much with other softwares but rather concepts such as GTD, which I think is tailored to the needs of people outside science, so I would deeply appreciate your views and experience. > > If this list is geared towards the proximate aspects of development and less towards philosophy of usage, I apologize > > Christoph