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Context: I'm an academic in applied math. Like most of you, I juggle multiple things -- courses, projects, students, committees. I spend most of my tube time
by kkylin 9y ago
Context: I'm an academic in applied math. Like most of you, I juggle multiple things -- courses, projects, students, committees. I spend most of my tube time in Emacs (yes, I know this half sentence tells you how old I am), and for each "project" (a research project, a course I'm teaching, a student I'm working with, etc) I keep an org file with a log of day-to-day or week-to-week progress. Every so often I go back and write an entry about my plans for the next month or so. This has worked reasonably well for me.
A very nice thing about org-mode is that most of the rest of the time I'm either writing code or papers, and all of that is in Emacs too. So if a thought pops up about a project while I'm in the middle of something else, it's really easy to jot it down in the right place and go back to it later.
- castle-bravo 9y agoI'm a 28-year old engineering undergraduate and I spend most of my time in e-macs as of about a year ago. It took a little time to get used to, but it's been worth it. I've recently fallen in love with org-mode and I want to ask you about using it as an engineering journal: how can I make it legally authenticatable? If I keep my journals in org-mode, is a private github repository sufficient for security and authentication?
- kkylin 9y agoAh, interesting question. This I do not know. Unlike my colleagues in biology, we are not actually required to keep lab notebooks or something equivalent. Perhaps someone more knowledgeble than I can answer...
- tomjen3 9y agoYou can always create a new set of commits (git will let you change the dates to what ever you want) and force push to master. Will look completely legit, unless somebody else has a prior checkout, or a hash. That is how you make it work: at the end of each workday, email somebody neutral the hash of head.