Paper voodoopad1/13/2023 ![]() There are also many many CD and DVD backups in three different buildings. However, everything is in the right folder on my laptop – like \courses0708\hi3112\weissbook or \research\unifil\44bn All the key textbooks for my major courses have been assimilated by my camera.Įverything should therefore be in Zotero, but isn’t, although I agree with Gavin that is is the best tool for the job. There is nothing important that is not on the computer – if someone else wrote it, or you wrote it on a paper napkin, it goes under the digital camera. ![]() ![]() Tall orders! I must think about this more. I suppose the intuitive structure would be a topical one but because my academic work straddles papers, my wiki, my blogs,, links, post-its, notebooks (real and virtual), desktop folders, random text files, incoherent thought-emails and correspondence with various friends and my long-suffering boyfriend, and all manner of other modes of thought, I think some sort of master map or index which can somehow categorize location, date, topic, form and content would be necessary - some kind of coordinate geometry of research - and ideally it would be all searchable or taggable. god, but all is so ultimately fragile. And I suppose it’s better to start sooner than later. I would like to have open topics that I am pursuing at any one time, which might help me resist the lure of tangential interests and stay focused I’d like an organizational structure that will enable me to find past things and thoughts easily but I guess that I also want my intellectual life (in the event that I am suddenly severed from it, which becomes, as time goes on, exponentially probable) to be traceable, navigatable, coherent, perhaps even useful to others - the way Kahin’s papers certainly are. ![]() To be morbidly honest with myself: though I have been planning to do something about this for a while, especially after discovering a wonderful guide to the historian George McTurnan Kahin’s papers, Peter Lipton’s tragic and shockingly swift death has, amongst other things, burned an indelible sense of mortality into me, and I am filled with a urgent desire for direction and resolution, or at least leaving the possibility thereof. You’d think that working with archives gives you a sense of how to organize your own papers alas, I cannot even decide how to categorize the books on my bookshelf, let alone the intellectual sedimentation that threatens to bury me in a veritable snowdrift of unfinished thoughts. I also have a wiki, in which I keep a reading log of all books I read, though I am marginally more competent at organizing online and computer folders. Sorry if that read like an advertisement - but I do find it quite useful! I tried several different apps this past year and finally settled on Craft.I despise filing, but I do not think I can escape it much longer having several full-to-bursting files of photocopied articles, archive flotsam and scrawled notes on paper, loosely organized by date and some vague topical delineation is just not working anymore - not to mention a notebook which contains everything from seminar notes, reading notes and lists of books to read, to hasty thoughts captured in some public place, shopping lists and random doodles. Throw in a template for meetings and you can take minutes in a really efficient manner and then share them as needed.įinally, Craft is free for students and teachers so you can try and see if it works out for you. If it’s a virtual event the meeting link and attendee info automatically gets pulled into the note. You can launch a new note directly from any event listed. The calendar function is also handy - all my meetings show up within Craft. It looks like this is going to be an area of focus for future development of the app. Sharing with others is pretty easy - any note can be published online via a shareable link. Compared to some other PKM apps, Craft handles PDFs and other attachments well. I have similar documents that I need to manage for teaching purposes and find it’s great at organizing them using a folder structure (no tags as of this time). I’m a big fan of Craft for this kind of work.
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