Workflows
Need to aspire to reach this level.
Entry Point
"What should I be doing?" - The moment I ask myself that, open the calendar.
Note what needs to be done
- Project related TODOs in projects.org
- Other TODOs in agenda/inbox.org
Schedule time for what needs to be done
- Schedule TODOs using
C-c C-s, send to Google calendar viaorg-gcal-post-at-point. - Assign deadlines using
C-c C-d. - Refile meetings to phd/meetings.org
Doing the work
- Clock in via
C-c C-x C-i - Clock out via
C-c C-x C-o
Chunk time of day in calendar in 1 or 2 hour blocks. A chunk should represent one of the following:
- Meeting
Link to entry in meetings.org, showing pre, during and post meeting notes alongside any TODOs.
- Research
Link to entry in projects.org, where each entry is a project containing TODO's for reading, theory, writing and experiments.
- Reading
Check "To read", "Reading" collections in Zotero, or the reading.org file for textbooks. Don't forget to create org-roam notes.
- Coursework
Link to entry in org-roam.
- Administration
Details and relevant website links.
- Errand
Mainly for personal things, such as cleaning room, buying groceries, cooking etc.
- Leisure
Anything ranging from meeting with friends, gym, extra-curricular event etc.
Color codes
Current (Google calendar) colour codes are:
- Black:
- Red: Medical
Journalling
Write a journal entry with org-capture, detailing the following:
- What am I grateful for?
- What is my most important task today?
- What story-worthy moment happened yesterday?
- How am I feeling today?
- What's working right now? What could be better?
Project Management
- Peter Jones's blog post.
- Break down things into features (for which workload is hard to estimate), then tasks for the features (which are easy to estimate). If a task takes around a day, break it down, ideally maximum 5 hours per task.
- Use org-mode column-view to see times nicely.
Literature Review/Notes
- To get the conference/journal versions of axriv papers, see script from this video.
- Create Anki notes for org-roam nodes when possible under a * Anki heading. See Anki notes for more information.
Writing
Coding/Experiments
Presentations
Music
- IDN tag changes names of files and tags them with the artist name - possible workflow could be Spotify \(\to\) YouTube \(\to\) MP3 \(\leftarrow\) IDN script, followed by post-processing like renaming.
Desiderata:
- Ability to take a Spotify playlist and collect corresponding MP3s (e.g. via YouTube).
- Ability to take a YouTube playlist and collect corresponding MP3s.
- Some script (maybe own one) to rename files by replacing underscores with spaces etc if needed.
- Ability to tag genres automatically.
Some potential issues:
- ffmpeg does not find song in YouTube.
- Language - want Greek songs in Greeklish (Greek + English) instead of in Greek.
Some links:
- audacious.el - emacs interface to audacious.
- deadbeef - multiplatform, handles tags etc.
- beets.io - Python based music collection manager, has many plugins as well.