Hi Matt and all, Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:13 AM, John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> > wrote: > >> How do you enter your grade? I use a function, bound to a convenient key >> like s-s g, which sets the grade property. You could have that function >> change the heading TODO state to DONE so you know it is done, and maybe >> add a tag with the grade, or just append the grade on the end of the >> headline. > Adding the grade as a tag doesn't seem quite right, as I often change > grades after a rewrite. I'd need to get rid of the original tag. Here's another idea for getting the grade into the headline: set the grade as a priority, like ** [#A] John Doe Pros: it's a simple hack that doesn't require you to do any additional parsing; it's easy to change up or down either interactively or programmatically (cf. org-priority* functions); and it's easy to sort headlines by priority in a custom agenda view, to give you a quick overall picture of your grade distribution. Cons: this would only work for A/B/C/D/F grades, and even then, it doesn't represent +/- variants. So it's not very flexible or granular, but it might be enough. Best, Richard P.S. Like others, I too have written my own grading system: https://github.com/wyleyr/schoolutils It stores grades and student data in a SQLite database, and allows you to write end-of-term grade calculations in Python, instead of messing with spreadsheets. (Overkill? Maybe so... :) It currently only has a command line interface, but I have been thinking about adding an Org interface that would do basic CRUD operations on grades via Babel. If anyone is interested in such a thing, let me know...
