From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Schmitt Subject: Re: Organizing and taming hectic Academia work (faculty viewpoint)? Tips or a good guides sought after :) Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 11:49:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54799) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2GAI-0000wr-Gc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 05:49:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2GAD-0003jk-Qu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 05:49:50 -0400 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]:10791) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2GAD-0003jR-Kg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 05:49:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Xebar Saram's message of "Mon, 8 Jun 2015 19:39:14 +0300") 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: Xebar Saram Cc: org mode --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On 2015-06-08 18:39, Xebar Saram writes: > i am looking for 2 things really:=20 > 1. as i said in the post topic a good guide if anyone is aware of or deta= iled > 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 em= ail i > would really be grateful for even non org specific tips on how other peop= le > organize all this to make life more..well..organized :) I'm in academia and I use org (also not to its full potential). Some great tips were already given, let me add a couple. I try to keep notes for every paper that I read. I have found org-ref to be really useful to keep the links between the notes and the papers (https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref). If you write many letters (for instance recommendation letters), you might be interested in koma export. (http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/koma-letter-export.html) Finally, I have found that one of the biggest pitfalls (for me) in working in academia is to spend all my time dealing with urgent, but not necessarily important, things. Following the procrastination matrix (see http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/03/procrastination-matrix.html for an entertaining description), I use a "@Q2" tag for things that are important and not urgent, and I reserve some time to work on them. The ones I'm currently working on are scheduled, and they are shown in my custom agenda view using this: #+begin_src emacs-lisp ("q" "Q2 tasks" ((agenda "" ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Q2 Scheduled") (org-agenda-skip-function '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'notregexp ":@Q2:"= )))) (tags-todo "@Q2/!-HOLD-WAITING" ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Q2") (org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines t) (org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled t))))) #+end_src Best, Alan =2D-=20 OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7 Weekly CO=E2=82=82 average (2015-05-30, Mauna Loa Observatory): 403.41 ppm --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJVdra0AAoJEAQNCjtO0uXHuVAIAJQX0OrlXUgPSmQq7pOgfovc fdqTn11jNsfuTUaLozA7FbVfsS4UlGN1vUHU60n7RxhT+eoWoE41z6ygYEZwkkpL YoqzEPW5M2Rh1G56y+pWisbebW5eX6sxNl/vGAe3yXy9OeEmYD2ZzYbY8WFj965B bRcz1IynPRdZqGFZ2RvSkRXD1L0u8WhLazdW6ItFUq8eSzLg2GUUwhv8Ln5FxiVR JsyNFxUslUEeznGh7rG+86JIC6JdL5DVcRLEHpwyoWbiHycjRL12x0tlUTkj9Xj4 XZrhwKqyixfSt8iDsadjR/amgqtpoFdQESyXZ2kmKa1+raEMU8m+G+ZWrVAB3PI= =3im/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--