[lit-ideas] Re: Zotero?
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:13:35 -0600
I think for me, it's a matter that ...well, if I were starting out brand new
on the first computer I'd ever used, it would be different.
Ever try to organize papers that have been backing up for decades?
yeah, right.
I'm laughing, Mike -- that very article is where I came across the reference
to Zotero which caused me to make my inquiry.
Julie Krueger
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I haven't used Zotero but Olivia Judson has -- did you read her comments
> on
> > it the other day in the NYT? She also talks about another new software
> > application called "Papers" which is exclusive to the Macintosh platform.
> >
> > Both are discussed in her column "Defeating Bedlam" at:
>
> Ms Judson illustrates (unintentionally so, while touting a few
> software products) how fucking lazy people are. If you think of your
> computer EXACTLY as if it were your office, it's very simple, by using
> a few simple rules to keep track of everything.
>
> a) when you download a file -- RENAME it to something that makes sense
> immediately
> b) do regular housekeeping (15 minutes once a week will pay dividends)
> on your 'folder' structure and keep changing that as the types of
> information does -- name your folders with something sensible as well.
> c) learn how a computer works and take advantage of that.
> d) there is NO 'D'
> e) if you leave the computer to DO your work, you will be just as lost
> as if you were sitting in an office with "stalagmites of paper"
>
> p
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