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I’m curious about what y’all are using for organizing your research: what apps/systems do you use to take notes, collect papers & links, etc.?
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Lately I’ve been trying out https://www.notebooksapp.com since it has both iOS and desktop apps, and it can sync/persist via files on Dropbox, so I don’t feel so locked in. It can also store/read PDFs for all the academic papers, and take archives of websites (though that isn’t as smooth as Instapaper). I also use youtube-dl a lot to convert videos of talks into MP3 files that I upload into Overcast for efficient listening.
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I collect PDFs on iCloud Drive, so I can read and highlight them with Preview on Mac, iPad, iPhone. I read books mostly in (i)Books on all devices. I then capture notes in either the Notes app or in iA Writer, also on all devices. My reading list (links) I manage (together with my todos and projects) in Things on iPhone and iPad. Read articles and papers turn into references in my notes. Sometimes I throw in a Pencil drawing on iPad done in Linea Sketch or (currently testing) Nebo. The transition from annotating external content and transforming it into my own notes is a very active part of my research right now, and I hope to switch to a different setup using our prototype early next year.
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I use GitHub Issues/projects and GitHub Pages mostly because transparency is so important to me but it's sometime annoying because some things are private and scattered throughout Google Docs and a few other platforms
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This is a topic I care about a lot and I feel like research tools are underwhelming in general but here are some I use:
https://workflowy.com is great for structuring your research / ideas / todos bookmarks and I generally use it for structured bookmarks of big topics
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I recently started using https://paperpile.com for collecting and managing academic papers and compared to Zotero and the rest of the alternatives I find it much nicer, they even introduced a new browser-based PDF highlighter
https://www.marginnote.com/ is a bit of an undiscovered gem of mine if you are osx/ios person. It can read pdfs and epubs and has GREAT highlighting tools, can create mindmaps maps out of them or structured notes, export flash card sync with anki etc. Amazing little app to read your pdf / epub books
As a general note taking app I tend to struggle to find anything I like and usually go back to google docs / apple notes and some stuff I keep in workflowy. I would be interested to try out @stevekrouse’s chrome plugin
I also think https://hackmd.io is a great idea but i wish it had some companion app or something like that..
for unstructured bookmarks I use https://pinboard.in a lot and sometimes https://www.are.na/ for visual stuff. I love both
Also I love https://instapaper.com it’s my go to read it later app
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My content and notes is smattered across Zotero, Notion, Scrivener, Notational Velocity, Simplenote, Clearview, Calibre, Sublime Text, Todo.txt, Github, Gitlab… Still waiting on that Memex!
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I use Mendeley for PDF and citation management. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it after it got bought by Elsevier but I have a lot of inertia with it 😞 I use Airtable for organizing notes / tagging documents. Its really slick if ya don’t mind proprietary web / cloud based stuff.
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Most of my thinking time is in front of https://ulysses.app
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@jonathoda is this just for prose? do you ever have to do math latex or something more complicated like that?
j
For conference papers I use latex in vscode. Even without math you need to use their latex template for layout.
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I have my own wiki engine for some things ... https://github.com/interstar/ThoughtStorms It's nothing special though. At the moment it's pretty standard, but it's evolving and I'm adding what's useful to me. I have a public notebook made with it and a couple of private local ones. I have my own minimal todo-queue app too (https://github.com/interstar/MTC-CLJ ) which I like a lot. It's a stupidly simple program but does what I want and I think it's very powerful. I confess I just keep pdfs in folders in the file-system. My own coding projects are in git with public facing github / gitlab and simple web interface to git hosted on my own site. The file system is organized in my own idiosyncratic taxonomy that I keep fiddling with.
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