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Not to speak for Mek, but one hope I have is that these small personal notes automatically make their way onto places like OpenJournal and start to seed convers
by jayunit 14y ago
Not to speak for Mek, but one hope I have is that these small personal notes automatically make their way onto places like OpenJournal and start to seed conversations. Something like a cross between ScienceBlogs and Twitter, with enough mini metadata to tie to the paper and paragraph.
Do you use a library management tool like Zotero or Mendeley for notetaking, or writing on printouts, or something else?
- mekarpeles 14y agoI'm a fan of plaus, academia, and mendley, etc. I wish there was more of an outlet/community for people to contribute their own research (in a way that made the research repeatable and improvable)
- streptomycin 14y agoI used to use plain text files. Recently I started using Mendeley because it's so damn convenient and it has a very nice UI, but my problems with Mendeley are (1) comments are private and (2) it's proprietary. http://www.researchblogging.org/ http://www.researchblogging.org/ is a great website that aggregates more long-form posts about papers, but it has a really shitty UI and it doesn't do anything for short comments on random papers by random non-bloggers.
- MrGunn 14y agoResearch blogging is great, but just to clear up the misunderstanding, comments are only private on Mendeley if you make them in a private group. Public groups are open to the web.
- mekarpeles 14y agoLet's see what inspiration we can draw from researchblogging.org -- I've read a bunch of data driven / research oriented blogs (or blogs about [understanding] research) and found them helpful.
- jamesjporter 14y agoI use zotero to manage my paper library and its wonderful. One of my favorite features is tag search. If I find a paper where they measure, say, the strength of a particular protein-DNA interaction that I'm interested in, but I know I'm never going to remember the title, I can just tag it with "Pnt binding strength" or something, and then search for it later.
- mekarpeles 14y agoThanks James, tag / faceted search is something I've envisioned for openjournal. I'll start working on the feature.