PDFs in structured folders. I.e papers papers\filtering papers\math papers\languages papers\filtering\IMM papers\filtering\MHT Yo

PDFs in structured folders. I.e papers papers\filtering papers\math papers\languages papers\filtering\IMM papers\filtering\MHT You get the idea. When I read I highlight using the yellow highlighter, and type notes in Evernote. Evernote is searchable. I make this 'cloud'y by using bittorrent sync to share across computers. That's all free. The folder method of holding papers/book/topics is nonideal - a paper can cover 2+ topics, for example. But it works, sort of, and I can still search. I use Everything (from void tools) to search on title or author, and then you can search inside pdfs with various tools. Mendeley and such were nonstarters for me. Any service that makes me pay for cloud storage has lost the war, IMO. I already have 1TB each from Dropbox and google, more from Microsoft, why am I paying you for cloud storage? I was having trouble with syncing with Mendeley, but reading the other comments aheilbut worked out the issues, so maybe i'll give it another go. I want to control the cloud, syncing, and file structure choices, not have a program decide those for me. I don't worry about reading lists - I need to read what I need to read. When I get around to that topic there may be more relevant stuff than I selected back at the time, anyway. YMMV. If I see a paper of remote interest that I can legally grab I grab it, dump it into my file structure, and then rely on search to bring it to my attention again at the appropriate time.