Keep your repertory work: exporting personal additions

Personal additions can represent many hours of reading: material from a proving, a reference you have studied, or notes you want to keep with a repertory entry. Exporting them as a logfile gives that work a form which can be saved separately or shared with another RadarOpus user.

In September 2021, the Synthesis team invited users to submit additions for consideration during preparation of Synthesis Adonis. That invitation had a deadline and is no longer a current call for submissions. The newsletter’s explanation of how to export your own work remains a useful piece of software teaching.

Choose what you want to export

The original guide describes two choices: export the complete logfile, or narrow the selection to particular material. Its filters include a remedy, an author, or a range of dates. A date range is helpful when the work you want to retrieve belongs to a particular period of study.

Before starting, decide which of these you need. An export of everything and an export of one author’s material serve different purposes; giving the resulting file a recognisable name makes that decision clear when you come back to it.

The newsletter’s export sequence

1. Open Additions in the RadarOpus menu bar.
2. Choose Export Additions.
3. Create or choose a destination folder that you can find again.
4. Export the whole logfile, or specify the remedy, author or dates you need.
5. When exporting your own contribution, clear the option to include additions imported from others.

The final point was particularly important in the original invitation. It kept the user’s own material distinct from additions received from colleagues or teachers. Retaining that distinction also makes a shared file easier to describe and review.

Keep an export in context

A logfile carries repertory additions; it should not be mistaken for a complete account of the reading or judgement behind them. Keep the relevant references available alongside the file. If you intend to contribute material to an editorial project, check its current requirements before sending anything: the old Adonis deadline and submission instructions do not apply indefinitely.

These steps reproduce the 2021 workflow. The official personal-additions tutorial provides the demonstration. For help with a current installation, contact Radar UK.

Adapted from Luke Norland’s Zeus Soft teaching newsletter of 2021-09-27.

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