Re: Organizing and taming hectic Academia work (faculty viewpoint)? Tips or a good guides sought after :)

[M <Elwood151@web.de>]

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> Von: Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com>
> Datum: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 19:39:14 +0300
> An: org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
> Betreff: [O] Organizing and taming hectic Academia work (faculty viewpoint)?
> Tips or a good guides sought after :)
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Im a young assistant professor (in humanities and thus my horrific coding
> skills..basically non ;-)) and having been using orgmode for a year or two
> now. I love orgmode dearly and use it mainly for note taking, lists etc
> 
> I am aware of the fantastic orgmode capabilities that could benefit me greatly
> such as exporting, email tie-ins, beamer support, organizing my bibliography
> (i have switched to a .bib file recently for my references), agenda
> capabilities and so much moreand have tried several of these with mild
> success. 
> 
> unfortunately (and this maybe due to me not being very technical and lack of
> coding skills) i still feel like im really not using orgmode to its potential
> and still feel miserably lost in terms of organizing my work in academia from
> all aspects.
> 
> i am looking for 2 things really: 
> 1. as i said in the post topic a good guide if anyone is aware of or detailed
> examples of using org in Academia (mainly aimed at faculty :))
> 
> 2. related to that as a young researcher with multiple students, paper
> writing, grant applications, department duties, endless TODOS, endless email i
> would really be grateful for even non org specific tips on how other people
> organize all this to make life more..well..organized :)
> 
> thanks alot in advance and sorry for the long mail
> 
> best
> 
> Z

Dear Xebar,

I think the first 10 results of the correspondindg google search already
show some very interesting examples:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=emacs+org-mode+in+resear
ch&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Did you have a look at those?

Kind regards

Martin