tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502708134478300805.post1424801346645200430..comments2023-10-09T00:15:08.640+11:00Comments on Stuff, geeky stuff: Managing work in progress datadgmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16429298708780406789noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502708134478300805.post-20996312576832542922013-03-19T07:05:50.663+11:002013-03-19T07:05:50.663+11:00Frighteningly, a lot of them were jst storing mate...<i>Frighteningly, a lot of them were jst storing material on their laptops and dumping it out to a usb disk.</i><br /><br />I guess it was that bit that caught my conscience, because I do that too. I suppose the difference is that the laptop is paired up with a desktop and the USB stick is only a backup in case I get to work or wherever and find the linux box is unavailable, but... I could save myself a lot of time with a reference manager, though, if I made enough time to make it useful in the first place. Anyway: I shall think out loud at my own blog. Thanks for the reassurance of normality!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502708134478300805.post-16383389519735243642013-03-16T16:33:14.573+11:002013-03-16T16:33:14.573+11:00It makes you normal - it fits with my experience o...It makes you normal - it fits with my experience of how a lot of researchers in the Arts and Humanities work - scientists tend to have piles of old notebooks and research diaries ....dgmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16429298708780406789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502708134478300805.post-61528856456958212212013-03-16T10:26:13.324+11:002013-03-16T10:26:13.324+11:00The other thing is that recently we looked at data...<i>The other thing is that recently we looked at data management practices in a cohort of beginning Arts and Humanities researchers. Frighteningly, a lot of them were jst storing material on their laptops and dumping it out to a usb disk. Some did use Drobox, but none made meuch use of Evernote or Zotero.</i><br /><br />I'm by no means starting out--moe like finishing--but that describes me very well. I have many backups, because I work on any of three different machines and synch them all by using a friend's linux box as an FTP dropbox. I've only been introduced to Zotero as a bibliographical engine, for which my experience is that it sucks, or at least doesn't do what I want such an engine to do, which is pick up data I already have in citation format and incorporate it. I have all my citations in a massive Word file I started before this sort of software became common-place; that file also tells me which folder my (paper, longhand) notes on the citations and if I have a full text somewhere. This is not data I want to have to retype. I do random thinking-in-text in a shareware program called TextPad, but only because I am old enough to remember carrying files round on a floppy disk and still think of Word as `heavy' when plain text is all one needs. (Also TextPad has a *far* more powerful search-and-replace.)<br /><br />So, does all this make me a problem user or just an old person?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com