<font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font>HI all, <br>Sorry for the delay in sending this out, but thanks to all the tips for ways to collect references and notes on-line, below are some recommendations from people,<br>
cheers, <br>John<br><br><b><a href="http://www.zotero.org">www.zotero.org</a><br></b> >> From Ricardo:<br> John says: I'd looked at this Firefox plug-in before, but didn't think much of it, but it has had significant updates recently, watch the intro screen cast to see the features. Just like endnote for keeping ref's but also allows you to easy grab any web page and store it locally, even annotate it with stickies. This is the one that I've gone with. It almost has too many features and is not that intuitive to use, but great support if you need help. <a href="http://Evernote.com">Evernote.com</a> below looks awesome too and I may try it for a lab notebook, particularly the search images function and the ability to scan in hand written notes. Drawback; you have to pay to use it.<br>
<br> <br><b> <a href="http://www.evernote.com">http://www.evernote.com</a>). <br></b> >>Angela:<br>""I've just started to use a note-taking program called Evernote. You can download a trial from this site (<a href="http://www.evernote.com">http://www.evernote.com</a>). It's on special offer until January 15, 2008 (€19.95). So far I'm really happy with it. You can type notes directly into it. Drag and drop web clippings, excel and word files, image files. You can also scan in images and docs - great for those scrappy pieces of paper I write things down on! (I haven't tested this yet though). It has a very good search facility - even finding text in images. It can be installed on a home and work computer and you can synchronize between computers using a usb thumb drive. It also has a portable version which you can use on PCs that don't have the program installed. See the links below for user stories from the user forum (<a href="http://forum.evernote.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=4990">http://forum.evernote.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=4990</a> ). There are a few that might give you ideas for setting up a system that works for you.<br>
<br><b>A few others: <br></b> <a href="http://www.citavi.com/de/allgemeines/english.html">http://www.citavi.com/de/allgemeines/english.html</a><br>google notebook<br>TWiki ( personal wiki available for Mac and Win) and JabRef -<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 5, 2008 6:04 PM, John Cumbers <<a href="mailto:johncumbers@gmail.com">johncumbers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all, <br>So I'm halfway through my PhD and I'm just launching into some updated reading for an old project and I'm looking at a better way to collect my notes together. I'm hoping that there is a great new tool available that someone can tell me about to make my life easier... or at least a better strategy that someone has found to do this sort of research by...
<br><br>I want something to collect notes from meetings with my supervisor, experiments I plan to do, notes from reading, diagrams, references. Ideally something that would show me a list of notes I've taken, in chronological order and also searchable via tags.
<br><br><i>Here are a few strategies that have <b>not </b>worked that well in the past.<br></i>Find papers via pubmed/hubmed/scholar<br>add papers to citeulike, many never end up getting read.<br>print out a few key pdf's on paper
<br>go through these, make notes on the paper itself, make notes on scratch paper<br>Write up key things on more scratch paper. <br>File some of the PDF's via citeulike ID number in filing cabinet... never to be looked at again.. get on with lab work
<br>or... create stack of unsortable papers, get on with lab work<br>Lose papers in mass of other papers. lose notes.<br>repeat.<br>
<br>Next best thing might be a paper notebook like a lab book. But this gets equally as messy, although I could repeat this with an index to be move successful. But a paper book is not easily searchable. What about a word doc... argh... can you imagine... maybe there are better tools for Mac or Unix, but I'm currently mostly on a PC.
<br><br>Can you help? Do you have a better strategy, or tool to recommend? I've googled a few times for things like this but never found anything satisfactory.<br><br>Cheers, <br>John<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>
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<br>-- <br> John Cumbers, Graduate Student<br>Biology and Medicine <br>Brown University, Box G-W<br>Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA<br>Tel USA: +1 401 523 8190, Fax: +1 401 863-2166 <br>UK to USA: 0207 617 7824
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Tel USA: +1 401 523 8190, Fax: +1 401 863-2166 <br>UK to USA: 0207 617 7824