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

[Anders Johansson <mejlaandersj@gmail.com>]

Xebar Saram <zeltakc <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 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
> 
> 

I have to collaborate in Word but can at least start out writing my papers
in org-mode. I use Zotero for reference management and with the help of
several tools I can insert citations that can be formatted by Zotero in the
final version of the paper.
Here is my configuration:
https://gist.github.com/andersjohansson/324a01364eb5a5435c65

It uses Erik Hetzners org-zotxt and org-pdcite, ox-odt for converting to
odt, and then the tool http://zotero-odf-scan.github.io/zotero-odf-scan/ to
convert the generated citations like { | Smith, (2012) | |
|zu:2433:WQVBH98K} to Zotero citation marks in the odt-file.

Perhaps someone else will have use for this as well,

Cheers,
Anders Johansson