What do you use to keep notes and references

spm_uk · 24 Sep 2009 at 16:12

Hey all,

Im starting a post grad degree next week and ive been told that there is going to be a substantial amount of reading / referencing / note taking during the research years. Just wondering what applications you use for this task? Is One Note any good?

Morgoth · 24 Sep 2009 at 16:46

I use Endnote X, but other people in the group also use Reference Manager.

Ciphon · 24 Sep 2009 at 16:55

Microsoft Word?

mk17 · 24 Sep 2009 at 17:03

I've been using OneNote lately - its great for collating information, well better than just using Word at least.

Nix · 24 Sep 2009 at 17:06

None, I just learned how to do it. The first couple of essays, etc. took quite some time to reference but I found by the end of my course I could do them in seconds, as was the case for my final-year project.

D.P. · 24 Sep 2009 at 17:12

spm_uk said:
Hey all,

Im starting a post grad degree next week and ive been told that there is going to be a substantial amount of reading / referencing / note taking during the research years. Just wondering what applications you use for this task? Is One Note any good?

Bibex is the key.
I use Jabref sometimes but usually find just using your favourite text editor (I use emacs) is quicker and easier.

There are some useful auto bibtex generators: http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~niu/cgi-bin/springer.cgi

And a I have a Javascript for IEEE articles.
Most websites will also give a a bibtex file, or you can spend 30s and write the entry by hand.

Inclusion within Latex is then super simple, clean and flexible. I don't know anyone at post-grad level who does not do this.