Some random suggestions: - use Zotero to organize anything that can be referenced: papers obviously, but also any books with ISBN, even websites with snapshots

Some random suggestions: - use Zotero to organize anything that can be referenced: papers obviously, but also any books with ISBN, even websites with snapshots (use the Zotero web extension) - learn about the CSL style and use Zotero to automatically export citations. Better BibLaTeX supports output to BibLaTeX. But if you can adapt your workflow to CSL YAML/JSON then it would be better. - use Notion with your academic email and then you can have free pro features. It has its own pros and cons, but you can upload anything there with virtually unlimited storage. (But obviously be careful to become over reliant on this.) - Keep logs of everything you do in a retrievable way, eg git. Take the lab notebook analogy but apply it to everything else, especially when code is involved. - try to make any code reproducible-ish. This is hard, but starts with manually logging things. You will want to be able to retrace your steps. - write a lot, write like you’re explaining to your future self (that may forget some of the details you know like the back of your hand right now). When you need to explain things to others, jot them down. When writing presentations for example, try write it like an outline of a mini paper (using speaker notes for things you don’t want to show on slide for example). The things you wrote could become handy when you later want to gather materials for a paper or dissertation. - because of this, when preparing presentation, with reasonable amount of time spent, try to generate images or equations that is publishing quality if you think it is going to be useful in the future. That kind of related to reproducibility. Going back to regenerate a graph differently is going to be hard. So better abuse the storage space and have a few extra formats than needed at the moment (matplotlib with pgf output for example.) - think about how you organize projects across different ecosystems with the same structure. The book Second Brain promotes using 4 categories Projects, Area, Resource, Archive and routinely tidying them up. It’s worth a read but it has its limitations. Start writing your CV and drafting your dissertation in the beginning. The things you mentioned probably all fit into them and knowing how they fit into a CV/dissertation is a way of “managing” them. P.S. using pandoc for all the writings is quite useful to me. Having a single source authoring presentation, LaTeX, documentation, etc. is quite useful. That allows me to copy and paste something I wrote for a presentation to my dissertation for example. YMMV however, as I’m a minority in that regard.