[lit-ideas] Re: Zotero?
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:39:39 +0900
To me, personally, the big problem is the one mentioned at the end of the
article. Zotero and its competitors assume an academic with a university
affiliation and access to university libraries or, alternatively, pockets
deep enough to buy personal subscriptions to JSTOR or other similar
services.
John
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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
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> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> 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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