http://www.mkbehr.com/enSat, 19 Sep 2015 23:29:26 GMThttps://getnikola.com/http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.mkbehr.com/posts/research-workflow/Michael Behr<div><p><a href="http://www.mkbehr.com/images/research-workflow.png" class="image-reference"> <img alt="A diagram of my workflow. I find papers on the internet, keep links and notes in an emacs org-mode buffer, use the links to pull up the papers when needed, and use the papers' bibliographies to find more references." src="http://www.mkbehr.com/images/research-workflow.png"> </a></p> <p>Any research project is going to involve a literature search: reading through a bunch of papers that might be relevant to your topic in order to get a sense of what the field already knows. Now, maybe there's some magic technique for picking out the information that matters, passing over the rest, and writing out a single, coherent story in one pass through all the papers you can find. If that technique exists, I have no idea what it is.</p> <p>So when every paper brings up ten new questions and twenty papers to start answering them, I need a system to keep my notes organized. I need notes that let me jump back and forth between papers without losing my place, draw links between papers, and store lists of citations to come back to. Here's how I do it.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mkbehr.com/posts/research-workflow/">Read more…</a> (8 min remaining to read)</p></div>emacsresearchhttp://www.mkbehr.com/posts/research-workflow/Sat, 19 Sep 2015 23:22:40 GMT