Hello everyone, After years of using LyX for research notebooks, I find myself these days working with sets of documents much like I have sets of tabs in my browser. I would really, really like to be able to open up sets of documents just like I can open up sets of tabs in a browser, and I would also really like to be able to bookmark documents much like I can bookmark web pages. Finally, it would be really nice if I could embed LyX links to other documents to refer to previous calculations or experimental results, so that I could click on it and LyX would open the document in a new tab. This would really, really facilitate my scholarly work.
Apart from the bookmarking, most of these are "solved" by opening multiple LyX sessions with the tabs I need, then never restarting my laptop for weeks on end. However, when my laptop inadvertently loses power, all of that "state" is lost and I have to recreate it from scratch. I have looked into implementing some of these ideas with lyxpipe programming, but as I said I use multiple LyX sessions for different kinds of work: one research project, another research project, one class, and another class all need their own tab sets, so they go in different sessions. lyxpipe can only talk with the first LyX process that starts. As far as I can tell, LyX does not have any of these capabilities and lyxpipe is not the way to implement them. Am I wrong? If I wanted to implement them, what is the most sensible way to do so? Is there an extension mechanism for this kind of thing besides lyxpipe? Finally, what are the tools that others use to organize large collections of notebook-ish files? Thanks! David P.S. I am not (yet) subscribed to the user list, so I'd appreciate if replies included my email address explicitly. Thanks! -- *David Mertens* Assistant Professor of Physics 727.864.8521 Office Hours can be made by appointment within the following time blocks: - Tuesday 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., MPC 213 - Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., MPC 107 - Friday 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., MPC 107 Eckerd College <http://www.eckerd.edu> 4200 54th Avenue South St. Petersburg, Florida 33711 [image: Eckerd College logo]
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