The 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

The 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.