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Zotero simplified a lot of my note taking / "information retaining" from stuff I bookmark / read. Much better than Obsidian etc. > Add thing to Zotero, 99% of
by oxff 4y ago
Zotero simplified a lot of my note taking / "information retaining" from stuff I bookmark / read. Much better than Obsidian etc.
> Add thing to Zotero, 99% of the time the metadata comes with it and is searchable already.
> To mark it as read, make a note for it (usually consists of main idea, good / bad ideas in the article, few sentences).
> Zotero entries without note are assumed unread.
for my diary / misc notes I use vscode with some markdown plugins, foam has like daily note functionality which is nice, add a new diary entry and add some tags ezpz
- phgn 4y agoDo you use your diary to record articles you have read or that you want to read?
- oxff 4y agoThe articles I've read are recorded by the fact that they contain a note in the Zotero catalog. Articles I want to read are implicitly recorded by the fact that they're in the catalog without a note attached to them. In Zotero when I use its notes functionality I mostly copy-paste quotes from the source material as a highlight reel for myself. Here's a picture to show: https://i.imgur.com/HvIxdI0.png https://i.imgur.com/HvIxdI0.png, everything with '1' under the first column is "read" or at least skimmed, and everything without it is unread but waiting to be read. Diary contains more of my own thoughts about the material if they arise, and other stream-of-conscious stuff. For organizing my diary I use just tags and timestamp as a filename. The main thing I'd say is that you have to kind of test and fiddle around with this stuff, once you find something with next to 0 overhead (like my flow is for me) it becomes quite rewarding in how it helps you gather and retain information. I could never get into the whole Roampilled hyperdimensional graph productivity BassBoost thing myself.