How do I get and store all my electronic information?
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I wrote about my pdf-overload and how I am coping with that. Today I will write about other sources information that I want to store or want to be alerted to. I use:
*) Evernote to store extracts from webpages with the accompanying link. Before using Evernote I used Google Notebook. But since there are rumours that Google stops supporting Notebook I switched to Evernote. I must say that I liked Notebook better. One of the reasons for that is that I also use Google Reader. I also would like to have the opportunity to work offline, but I did not yet find a solution for that.
*) Google Reader to read my RSS-feeds. Not so long ago I had over a thousand RSS-feeds but I removed them all and started all over again. Nowadays I have approx. 25 feeds I read. I also created RSS-feeds for Pubmed for deep brain stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Below you can find a video about creating a RSS-feed for a pubmed search term.
*) Twitter to obtain information before it is even published on one of the weblogs. Since google reader does not yet(?) support some kind of alert if a new message arrives, Twitter gives me alert if something new is posted. But I am not yet a fervent Twitterer.
*) I almost never use the favorites of my browser. Google Chrome automatically remembers the websites I visit the most. For other websites I just type the URL or I use google to find the url.
*) I installed Wordpress on my Asus EEEPC with linux. I also installed a webserver with mysql. This allows me to take notes during discussions in places where no (wireless) internet is available. These spots still exist in the Netherlands.
As you can see I still use several software packages to store my information. Ideally, I want to store all the information in one place.
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18 maart 2009 om 10:00 (subscribed to comments)
[...] Jan at Medblog.nl has three interesting posts on his workflow as a scientist. How to obtain collect and store all the information found and needed for his PhD thesis. An interesting and useful post about the management of his pdf load. This post is followed by a post about his greasemonkey scripts he wrote for searching pubmed and retrieving the information and how to store all this information. [...]
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