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That said, if you are not using this then you are wrong on so many levels. How long that takes, however, is hard to determine.

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And, they are constantly updating the software in response to user input. As an information collector this is king. I think-at least I hope-that every college student, at any degree level, has this installed on their computer.

Evernote (Mac and PC): Do I really need to explain this one? This software is the ultimate when it comes to information dumping.

I think the software is pretty straight forward however, there are a few little tricks that I have found that make this my choice over others.

Zotero (Mac and PC): The best of the open-source reference management softwares.

In short, the more you put in the software, the more it can tell you how all your information fits together-yes, it can do this. algorithm (I think that is what it is) that links related files together so long as it can recognize the text. In addition, it allows file tagging and an incredible A.I. This is a powerful feature that is often overlooked.

It allows for hierarchal storage structuring, and files stored in a folder can be replicated to different folders anywhere in your database. The best of all softwares (in my opinion) at holding documents and managing your files.

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DEVONthink Pro (Mac only): Databasing software juggernaut.

However, each one is unbeatable in its core features. Each one has its own strengths and weaknesses. These are my softwares: DEVONthink Pro, Zotero, Evernote, and Scrivener. My intentions are simple enough: I hope to give you a look at what I do, how I manage my software, and how, even though I use several different softwares, I save time and braincells by making my work a digital flow (see what I did there?).

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Through this series of blog posts I intend to explain what my digital workflow is and how it works for me. I use various softwares now, and for various reasons. Now, that being said, a digital workflow can become troublesome if you don’t learn your software. After a lot of digging and searching, I finally decided on a digital workflow not because I had found the best software, but because I realized that not all software will do what you want and you need to make it work how you want. This, I think, was the overwhelming part. Always looking for something better, I have constantly sought out the newest thing to help me manage my references, my PDFs, and academic life. Indeed, it is overwhelming to think about all the softwares I have used up to this point. The title of this post-my very first-suggests that one PhD student uses so much software in his digital workflow that it almost seems unproductive. (I have unimaginatively called mine BibTex modified.fmt).I know what you are thinking. The hack is to enter the institutional author in a user field (I have used user8) and then to create a custom format that is based on BibTex.fmt. I have struggled with a way to avoid manually correcting the BibTex file (can be done by enclosing institutional authors with curly brackets) and have stumbled upon the following hack in Bookends (which I use to export the BibTex file). For example Ministry of Health would look like Ministry, OH in the Pandoc processed document. However, one of the issues that has prevented me from completely going over to pandoc-citeproc has been that institutional authors are abbreviated in the output. Bookends can export BibTex files and this is what I have been doing. A Pandoc filter, called pandoc-citeproc, can scan the Markdown file and replace the reference placeholders with the correct citation based on a BibTex file. I write in Markdown and use Pandoc to output Word/PDF documents. Read More Working with references in DEVONthink I then link related items to each other with arrows and apply a label to the arrow to indicate the relationship as well as apply colours or group in pinboards to organise the items. These text figures are then dragged out onto the main canvas when I want to create connections. The ‘inbox’ is an album (using Curio terminology) which formats and stores items of text that I copy and dump from DEVONthink. In the below figure I have provided an example of the ‘idea graphs’ that I create in Curio for a particular topic, at little bit like a Zettelkasten. Where this is important is being able to ‘see’ the connections between records in a way that a pure text based wiki is not able to do. That missing element is the ability to link similar records in a graphical fashion that suits the way in which I think visually.

And despite the amazing ability of DEVONthink Pro to find similar text and documents there is a missing element, at least for me. I have previously written about how I use DEVONthink Pro as the repository for all of my annotations and reading briefs.

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