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Old 11-01-2007, 04:50 PM   #6
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As for managing files, I just use bibtex, with all my entries in one big file, and I use JabRef to manage them. What's nice is, it can import ISI-exported reference lists. No typing!
I get most of mine from medline and pybliographer works nicely with that. I've used jabref a bit in the past and I'll have to look at it again.

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For keys I usually use year, followed by the first author's last name, and then a number if that's not unique: 2005Chen, 2005Anderson1, etc.

Then I can put the files in any folder structure under a single directory, and JabRef can find them by name (since the name is the same as the key).
That's how I used to have it on my PC, all in one folder. But now that I've moved my library to my iliad (or rather a USB stick that I read on the iliad) I didn't want to have to go through pages trying to find refs. I therefore decided to have a directory structure that makes it relatively quick to locate a particular reference on the iliad. Oh, ... as I typed that I remembered that the iliad can search in single directories. Doh! Perhaps I can get rid of my directory structure.

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Unfortunately, I haven't figured out a good way of taking notes yet. I don't like writing on the files directly, I like to have all my notes in one place. My current approach is to have a notes file in LyX where I take notes on each article as I read it. This has pluses and minuses, but it's the best method I've found so far...
I don't feel that I have found an optimal solution either.

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I do my academic writing in LyX. If you haven't tried it yet, you should!
I looked at it ages ago, but never really got hooked. I am a latex and emacs guy. With reftex emacs, bibtex and latex work together very nicely. And these days I usually add R into the mix ("Sweave" documents, the ultimate in reproducible analysis). I think it would be too hard to change now.

I wonder if it would be possible to port emacs to the iliad and have gestures for Ctrl and Meta. Then anything would be possible!
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