Research Questions

The pros encourage us to capture our research questions and track information as we answer those questions. I have been capturing researching questions in proof arguments under a heading of “Research Questions”. I answer those questions in the proof. 

I found this was a duplicate effort when I created tasks that had similar questions.

This became an obvious thing I wanted to correct. 

First, support a new task type “research-question”.  In this way, when I create a task I can add the tag “research-question”. I then write my question in the title and provide background information in the body of the tiddler. Be sure to associate that task with other entities, such as people, events, places, organizations, sources, etc.

Second, write a macro that could be used in an assertion to list questions associated with the assertion. There is no need writing these questions out again. Assertions already had the capability to associate tasks. 

Third, update assertion templates to use this macro. The macro “research-questions” supports a single parameter that defines how the list is to appear. Leave out the parameter and the list is simply provided as is. Otherwise, request a “orderedlist” or “unorderedlist” in the parameter.

This can be seen in an example : 

<<research-questions “orderedlist”>>

Ordered list is numeric listing and unordered list is a bullet list.

Research questions were added in 1.0.04. 

Having a collection of research questions readily available, organized based on projects and associated with people, events, places, organizations and more will keep you focused.