From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Lubeck Subject: Using org-mode for laboratory notes. Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:15:35 -0700 Message-ID: <3EBF4F09D06D482C9F7BD50A74669FA8@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="5059efa7_68ebc550_f5" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56632) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TEMw8-0004gO-Gu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:15:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TEMw6-00074U-FB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:15:40 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:39797) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TEMw6-000749-AH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:15:38 -0400 Received: by obhx4 with SMTP id x4so1373297obh.0 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:15:37 -0700 (PDT) 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --5059efa7_68ebc550_f5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello Everybody, I had a look around the web for awhile, but couldn't find any information pertaining to my particular needs. I hope somebody here will be able to help me out. Anyway, I've been looking around for quite a while for the proper system to set-up an electronic laboratory notebook in. I will be using org-mode to document wet-lab experiments in addition to computational work. One of my particular concerns is this: I'm accustomed to using a chronological laboratory notebook for recording all of my data. The agenda views in org-mode seem to provide a means to retrieve chronological information out of my outlines, but I would than need to timestamp every single entry in my outline. Is there a means for doing this? Currently I am manually typing C-u C-c ! , but it would be helpful to have something automatically configured to timestamp and place the time in a drawer for any entry in a particular file. My other question pertains to efficiently representing linked or nested data. I'd like to record my detailed laboratory protocols in another outline. As most of my day-to-day work is using these protocols with minimal modifications, I'd like to record in my primary outline a property or hyperlink that points to the primary protocol and suggests that this days experiment "inherits" from the main protocol with given modifications. It would be really awesome if the protocol tree could than pick up on these distant inheriting protocols and transclude in the dates I have performed this protocol and subsequent modifications from the "lab notebook" section. Is such a task possible with org-mode, or must I look towards a more traditional database? Thanks, Eric Lubeck --5059efa7_68ebc550_f5 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
Hello Everybody,

I had a look around the web for= awhile, but couldn't find any information pertaining to my particular ne= eds.  I hope somebody here will be able to help me out.
Anyway, I've been looking around for quite a while for the p= roper system to set-up an electronic laboratory notebook in.  I will= be using org-mode to document wet-lab experiments in addition to computa= tional work. 

One of my particular concerns= is this:  I'm accustomed to using a chronological laboratory notebo= ok for recording all of my data.  The agenda views in org-mode seem = to provide a means to retrieve chronological information out of my outlin= es, but I would than need to timestamp every single entry in my outline. =  Is there a means for doing this=3F  Currently I am manually ty= ping C-u C-c =21 , but it would be helpful to have something automaticall= y configured to timestamp and place the time in a drawer for any entry in= a particular file.  

My other question per= tains to efficiently representing linked or nested data.  I'd like t= o record my detailed laboratory protocols in another outline.  As mo= st of my day-to-day work is using these protocols with minimal modificati= ons, I'd like to record in my primary outline a property or hyperlink tha= t points to the primary protocol and suggests that this days experiment =22= inherits=22 from the main protocol with given modifications.  It wou= ld be really awesome if the protocol tree could than pick up on these dis= tant inheriting protocols and transclude in the dates I have performed th= is protocol and subsequent modifications from the =22lab notebook=22 sect= ion.  Is such a task possible with org-mode, or must I look towards = a more traditional database=3F

Thanks,
Eric Lubeck --5059efa7_68ebc550_f5--