Dear Eric, Bastien and John, Thanks for references to recutils and org-ql. These are very interesting, and I am looking at those.
A recutils database with a possibility of selecting, inserting and updating records from org is one possibility. Let me play around with these tools a bit and see what they are like. Thanks again, Vikas On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 at 22:20, Fraga, Eric <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sunday, 23 Feb 2020 at 15:10, Vikas Rawal wrote: > > I am thinking of using org-mode to compile a small database. > > Although org is fantastic, it is sometimes worth considering other tools > (and with babel, these can often be brought into the org sphere of > activity easily). For instance, GNU recutils [1] might suit you > better. There's even an emacs mode [2]. > > Just my 2ยข. > > > Footnotes: > [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ > > [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/rec-mode-manual/rec-mode.html > > -- > : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.3.6-354-g9d5880 >
