A simple collection of initial LaTeX files and Perl scripts to get started with a labbook, e.g. if you want to keep track of work you do from day to day during a thesis.
The idea for this setup comes from Reddit user /u/riboch in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/LaTeX/comments/2ty6pj/setting_up_a_lab_notebook_using_latex/co3kwe1/
These files are just one possible implementation of their idea. I created it to make it easy to maintan the labbook.
Download the files in this repository to get an "empty" labbook. Run the Perl script _addNewDay.pl to add a new LaTeX file for today, you can find it as YYYY/MM/YYYYMMDD.tex where YYYY, MM and DD stand for today's year, month and day, respectively. Use your favourite editor to write down today's progress. Compile Labbook.tex. Done.
commandLibrary.tex
- Put custom commands (e.g.
\newcommand{}{}) in here
documentSetup.tex
- Include packages, their settings and other global document settings here
Labbook.tex
- Compile this file to get your labbook
- You should not need to touch this, although you sometimes may want to comment out single years to speed up compilation
- Do not touch the
[PERL INPUT TAG]!
Appendix/*.tex
- These files contain quotes from /u/riboch describing what to put in here. Of course, feel free to adjust this as you like
Bibliograpyh/Bibliography.tex
- Put BibLaTeX bibliography tags in here
- Each new day gets a
\label{sec:YYYYMMDD}so you can\nameref{}to each day in your labbook - Put figures etc. in a subfolder for the respective day, i.e. in
YYYY/MM/DD/figure.png