Re: Using org-mode for laboratory notes.

[Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com>]

Hey,

this is a nice idea and makes me wonder if it would be possible to use
templates to automatically commit all recent changes in a git repro,
and start a new day by a new fresh working space in git.
git links are already possible. The template could create a link to
the just checked in status in a extra org-file. You would end-up with
a link for each date and file that changed and following this links,
your files would magically be set-back to that particular timestamp.
Furthermore, having the capabilities to see the diff and to see the
history of not only complete files but of single headlines in org-mode
would be then very helpful.

I believe having a more tied integration of git capabilities within
org-mode could really come up with some nice solutions.

Torsten

On 21 September 2012 11:09, Tim <wiskey5alpha@gmail.com> wrote:
> At Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:08:21 -0500,
> Russell Adams wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 09:15:35AM -0700, Eric Lubeck wrote:
>> One of my particular concerns is this: I'm accustomed to using a
>> chronological laboratory notebook for recording all of my data.  The
>> agenda views in org-mode seem to provide a means to retrieve
>> chronological information out of my outlines, but I would than need
>> to timestamp every single entry in my outline.  Is there a means for
>> doing this?  Currently I am manually typing C-u C-c ! , but it would
>> be helpful to have something automatically configured to timestamp
>> and place the time in a drawer for any entry in a particular file.
>
> Hello,
>
>    I have the following setup in order to keep cronological notes.
>
> * In my capture templates I have the following :
>
>   #+begin_src elisp
>         ("j" "Journal entry" entry
>          (file make-journal-file-name )
>          "* %? :journal:REVIEW: \n %u")
>   #+end_src
>    and I've defined the function like so :
>
>   #+begin_src elisp
>    (defun make-journal-file-name ()
>      (concat "~/Planner/Journal/" (format-time-string "%Y.%m.%d.%a" nil) ".org" )
>     )
>   #+end_src
>   That way, to create a new entry I just hit 'C-c c j'
>
>   which gives me the following :
>   *  :journal:REVIEW:
>     [2012-09-20 Thu]
>
>   in the file ~/Planner/Journal/2012.09.20.Thu.org
>
>   Please let me know if any of that is unclear.
>
>
>   Hope that helps,
>
>   -T
>