Dear Eric, Bastien and John,

Thanks for references to recutils and org-ql. These are very interesting,
and I am looking at those.

A recutils database with a possibility of selecting, inserting and updating
records from org is one possibility.

Let me play around with these tools a bit and see what they are like.

Thanks again,

Vikas


On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 at 22:20, Fraga, Eric <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Sunday, 23 Feb 2020 at 15:10, Vikas Rawal wrote:
> > I am thinking of using org-mode to compile a small database.
>
> Although org is fantastic, it is sometimes worth considering other tools
> (and with babel, these can often be brought into the org sphere of
> activity easily).  For instance, GNU recutils [1] might suit you
> better.  There's even an emacs mode [2].
>
> Just my 2¢.
>
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
>
> [2]  https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/rec-mode-manual/rec-mode.html
>
> --
> : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.3.6-354-g9d5880
>