Over time I have settled into the following "personal best practices" of sorts to track my research: 1. I add papers that I read to Mendeley. This makes them a

Over time I have settled into the following "personal best practices" of sorts to track my research: 1. I add papers that I read to Mendeley. This makes them accessible across devices. Also makes them searchable. Before: Used to keep them in a Dropbox folder, with a specific naming scheme that has the title and the author names (some if not all) in the title. 2. Notes go into a LaTex document. Either I maintain the document in its own Git repo or have it on ShareLaTex. Before: Used to maintain a MarkDown document, but I realized that to submit technical reports (PDF documents with tables, formulae, graphs and citations) I can now simply copy-paste from my LaTex "notebook". 3. Codes go into a Git repo. 4. For the stuff I am currently reading, I usually print out some of it and carry them around in a folder. Which also has some blank sheets and a pen. But long term conclusions make it back to my LaTeX notes. This folder is like my a materialized working memory. FYI: if it matters, area of research: ML