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...@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
