One of the things I've started to improve while writing is my system for organizing papers electronically. Since so much is available online, I have maybe half of the papers I read downloaded, and many of them I just view online (Pub Med Central- how did people learn anything before this??). Just to give you a sense, I am still on a the first couple pages of this document, and I have 30 references- and LOADS more to fill in for just those pages. I knew that dealing with references was going to be A THING.
I didn't quite realize that my plan was going to be so lame. I usually have open my email and RSS feed, and then the next couple tabs of my browser are papers I'm looking at, or looked at. Well, the part of my paper I am writing now is about the history of this feild, so I am ILL'ing things from the library( one tab for library login, one tab for journal search, another tab for updating my ILL requests) and when I find papers, I don't want to lose them to the cloud- so they stay open. I decided this was all getting out of control yesterday and broke it into 3 windows. One for the library- log in, search, request, each have a separate tab. One for the papers I am finding via pubmed- one search, and already half a dozen papers I am half done with. And finally one for my email, RSS feed, pandora and yeah, pictures of Tyler. He's still got his own tab open so I can browse photos while I imagine what the rest of my family is up to.
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This is such a scary image. How did it ever get done with typewriter and carbon paper?? Anyway, back-up, back-up....love, dad
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