From: "Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>
To: GMX Christoph 13 <christoph-13@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how do scientists use org mode?
Date: 1 Feb 2012 09:41:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hazb3pza.fsf@gmx.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D8911652-81D0-4552-A63C-A9DEB1CE3D67@gmx.net> (GMX Christoph's message of "Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:21:33 +0100")
Hi Christoph
For my scientific work (I'm an Indologist) I use orgmode in three ways:
1. _Project planning and calendar management_
That's just the normal thing. I use the GTD approach, extended by
some specialties like the tags :BIGROCK: (most important project to
work on this week) and :MIT: (most important thing of the day).
2. _Writing papers_
To me this is one of the most important powers of orgmode: work on
papers and have Todos inserted into the text directly. So, if you
have referenced a book but you don't have it at hand at the moment,
you can do:
This is a paraphrase you need a reference for (Smith 2009: ??).
TODO Check the page in Smith's book :LIBRARY:
I always add files with draft papers to org-agenda-files. Next time
I'm at the library and have MobileOrg with me, the Todo shows up and
I can check the book. I know of no other wordprocessor or editor
which can do this.
3. _Collecting reference material_
Whenever I read a book (since some months I usually read ebooks or
pdfs on my tablet), I find passages I need for present or future
papers. With the ezReader app (Android) you can mark these passages
and send them to MobileOrg. When I come home, the new material has
already synced and waits to be tagged and refiled. I use org-files
for each paper I'm working on as databases for references. The header
is a short description of the content of each reference. Keywords and
bibliographic data are put into drawers that can be queried. I have
an Emacs macro that automatically transforms the raw entry into the
right markup.
Welcome to org
Sven
GMX Christoph 13 <christoph-13@gmx.net> writes:
> Hi
> this is my first post here and although I am evaluating org mode with great interest, I am also asking myself in which way other scientists are making use of org mode. It will take a while to get my head around how to accomplish 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.
> Are you putting exclusively your todos in, well, your todo file and perhaps keep project-related things, such as data and progress, notes, ideas etc. somewhere else? Or do you embed your notes and todos within their original context, i.e. is org mode your one-stop solution for data management? Do you maintain a separate file for every major project you are responsible for or involved in or throw everything into one or few humungous files and differentiate using hierarchies and tags?
> In the past I have hit some road blocks not so much with other softwares but rather concepts such as GTD, which I think is tailored to the needs of people outside science, so I would deeply appreciate your views and experience.
>
> If this list is geared towards the proximate aspects of development and less towards philosophy of usage, I apologize
>
> Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-01 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-26 21:21 how do scientists use org mode? GMX Christoph 13
2012-01-27 1:35 ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-01-27 17:07 ` Eric S Fraga
2012-01-27 18:27 ` John Hendy
2012-01-28 17:39 ` Tomas Grigera
2012-01-30 17:37 ` Christopher W. Ryan
2012-01-30 19:51 ` cberry
2012-01-31 19:20 ` Christopher W Ryan
2012-01-31 20:13 ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-02-02 17:19 ` Christopher W. Ryan
2012-01-31 19:58 ` Simon Thum
2012-02-02 4:25 ` Christopher W. Ryan
2012-02-02 5:10 ` Nick Dokos
2012-01-28 15:38 ` Bodhi
2012-02-01 8:41 ` Sven Bretfeld [this message]
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2012-02-03 21:06 GMX Christoph 13
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