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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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 I've never really gotten into...Submitted by mizhi on August 14, 2006 - 10:14am.
mdl wrote:
I've never really gotten into EndNote. From what I've seen, BibDesk seems a lot cleaner and more stable. But LaTeX also looks like it has a steep learning curve. I'm in the humanities, and I know that LaTex is much more common in math and science. How long does it generally take to master LaTeX? LaTeX is sort of like othello; a minute to learn, a lifetime to master. It takes, literally, 5 minutes to learn the basic structure of a LaTeX document and how to turn it into a .ps or .pdf file. If you want to do more fancy things with it, google is your friend. There are numerous ways to do the same thing in LaTeX, and it can be very finicky. » POSTED IN:
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