Antonin Januska has posted a video showing how he set up and uses an engineering notebook. I’m always interested in how people implement engineering/scientific notebooks and Januska’s video is especially interesting because he implemented his as an Org-mode file.

His idea is that the notebook shouldn’t be a log so much as a collection of technical notes to remember how he accomplished some task or even shortcut key sequences that he might otherwise forget. His set up is a nice example of starting slow with Org-mode and learning new features as you need them.

His notebook is a sequence of topics as the top level headings and lists of items or further subheadings underneath the main headings. The most complicated thing he uses is code blocks and he hasn’t gotten around to making them executable yet. Again, it shows how far just a little Org-mode can go.

The video is only 10 minutes, 48 seconds so it should be easy to fit it in if your interested in seeing how you might set up an engineering notebook.