From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomas Grigera Subject: Re: how do scientists use org mode? Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:39:38 -0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34588) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrCFY-0004PI-TL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:39:41 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrCFX-0002WJ-HU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:39:40 -0500 Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:57689) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrCFX-0002WA-9q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:39:39 -0500 Received: by dake40 with SMTP id e40so2530003dak.0 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:39:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: 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: John Hendy Cc: GMX Christoph 13 , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Cristoph On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 15:27, John Hendy wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:21 PM, GMX Christoph 13 = wrote: >> Hi >> this is my first post here and although I am evaluating org mode with gr= eat interest, I am also asking myself in which way other scientists are mak= ing use of org mode. It will take a while to get my head around how to acco= mplish 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. > > [...] Thomas, Eric and John gave very useful answers, I just want to add my $0.02 as a physicist who recently (about a year ago) started using Org mode. I started mainly looking for a workflow organization system, but slowly discovered it has many other possibilities. For research, I find org-babel is a great tool. It allows you to have a document collecting together thoughts and discussion along with data, data analysis, scripts for data manipulations and plots (Org tables are actually more like a spreadsheet since Org supports quite complex formulas and even plotting directly from the table). The many export possibilities mean that you can share your notes with colleagues not using Org (or even Emacs). I have also discovered it is a great tool for drafting presentations and then actually producing your slides via Latex- Beamer export. HTH, Tomas