Thank you to all who replied. Lots of useful approaches to consider regarding data entry!
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Loyall, David <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Caroline. > > I recommend Forms Mode for Emacs. > > In case you don’t know: Emacs is a pretty unusual piece of software. It > was born 40 years ago but was last updated an hour ago. It’s been under > continuous development for longer than half the U.S. population has been > alive*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs > > Forms Mode comes with Emacs. It’s designed for data entry. It might be > really hard to get set up initially, but once that is done, you can expect > it to “just work” for a long, long time. (At least another 40 years?) > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/forms.html > > In case you know Emacs as some musty relic that only neckbearded > computer-room people dare to use, consider these websites: > http://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs/ > http://emacsrocks.com/ > http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_package_system.html > http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/ask > > One nice result of using Forms Mode is that with a little work, you can > completely prevent wasted keystrokes.** > > Cheers, > --Dave > > > > * http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_age.html > > ** Field 3 is always three digits? Jump to field four after the 3rd > digit. Automatically open the data entry file when you start the program? > No problem... Etc. > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Caroline Li <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've heard that entering data manually into spreadsheets (which I've > > always done) is frowned upon. Is there free software available for > > data entry? Apparently some people use Google Forms, but maybe > > there's an option better geared to scientific data? >
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