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Student/Academic Filing Question
caseykoons | Apr 29 2006
Congratulations to you all, especially those of you who responded to my post in the "I'm new" forum. I took your advice and borrowed a copy of GTD from my local library, and I am beginning to try to implement in my life. I've asked a few questions surrounding GTD and the academic lifestyle on this board and I have another one. I'm curious about filing systems. I know that David Allen suggests an A-Z and warns that personal systems are dangerous. The vast majority of the things I save for "reference" are photocopies of journal articles and books related to my field, the History of Religions. I especially curious about the opinions of other graduate students in this matter. Should I have a separate file (by topic or by author) for my academic resources or should I through them in an A-Z general file with my owner's manuals, bank statements and newspaper clippings? Thanks for your help. 24 Comments
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 My primary allegiance to Endnote...Submitted by Berko on May 21, 2006 - 10:00pm.
My primary allegiance to Endnote has to do with the import and electronic remote connection functions. I almost never enter references into Endnote manually. When I do searches on WorldCat or ATLA or some other database, I use those databases' ability to save records in a format for importing to Endnote. If I am working with a book I pulled off the shelf at the library, I search LOC or some other major library such as Yale by ISBN to get the record info. I like using university libraries so that I also get the LOC call number with it. The only time I enter records is if I am working with an edited book of essays that I pulled off the shelf in the library. There's no really easy way to search for book chapters as records, so I have to enter those manually. The other time is when there is a book that is so old that it doesn't have an ISBN. I can usually search by author and title and get it, but sometimes I can't and have to enter it manually. » POSTED IN:
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