This could be solved by maintaining your own prefix system to introduce kind of a tree structure relationship to tags, like what we did in the previous section for the status tags. Sometimes I feel this would be very useful, for example when I want to have a look at all by tags of ML methods. The tags are scattered or displayed equally, there is no additional tree structure for tags in Zotero. But with a tag system, you can select either or both tags at the same time. Only then, you can search or locate a paper either the ML method or the AE problem.

What does this mean? Simple, supposing you want to organize hundreds of papers both by the specific machine learning (ML) methods it used and by the aerospace engineering (AE) problems they tackled, you’ll need two trees to achieve the goal.

Here I will briefly explain why and what I’ve went through to get this conclusion, in my opinion:

Maybe there are some good tutorials, but I just didn’t bother to do more search, which I regret. Now I finally realize that using tag is a better way to organize paper.Īlthough I’ve heard of this conclusion long time ago, almost when I first started to use a reference management software, I didn’t have any experience and thus didn’t know how to use a tag system. More precise tags can be added “below”, similar to what is done for the Topics category.ĭifferent from Damien who doesn’t use Collections much, I use them to organize papers into specific disciplines.Typically the case for papers I want to present in a journal club or a similar context.All references tagged with DGG:Status:ToRead or higher should have been imported into Docear.“Skimmed” references should be accompanied with a note summarizing them.Ideally this tag should not be used it’s better to take the time to actually skim the paper rather than marking it as “to be skimmed”.This is the best practice of using the tag system in Zotero that I ever heard of.Ģ019, Damien Goutte-Gattat, “Managing academic literature with Zotero and Docear” My system is inspired by the following very insightful Tag System: Do NOT add this prefix to regular methods like EKF. Other things to do about the paper, other than ToSkim or ToRead. To implement the methods or simulations in the paper. Should study in detail.Ĭlassical highly cited fundamental. Add comments back to PDF for electric records!! Studied in great details, making clear of every details. Read more details than ph:Skimmed but not studied as in ph:Studied. Skim introduction, conclusion, figures, tables. Worthy of further study, but not yet, maybe due to no time or not related to the current work at hand. Every time, after adding new items, in the whole library, sorted by date modified, and tag all new items.

My tag system (as of 05:05:32): Status tag system Tag Name Either is good and easy, once you mastered it. ZotFile + Dropbox + Boox Note+ or other tablets. Make sure meta-data are correct at the very beginning.įiles should be managed by ZotFile, saved in Dropbox. Working flow Collecting efficientlyĪdd a new collection, search and add using the Zotero connector plugin for Chrome.ĭownload paper using sci-hub-fy plugin, if necessary. Set up your own rules ahead and then follow them strictly. Leave collection just literally a collection of something. Use tags to organize papers, see below for reasons. Sadly the development of Docear stopped, so don’t use it Zotero can do everything Mendeley could, even more elegantly.

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