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Sat through a 4-hour Zoom workshop on citation managers and it actually changed my workflow
I was at a virtual workshop hosted by the Phoenix Public Library last Tuesday about Zotero, and the librarian showed this one trick for organizing PDFs. I used to just dump everything into folders and hope for the best, but now I tag my sources by project and date. Has anyone else found a hidden gem at a free library event that made their research less chaotic?
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robinson.matthew25d ago
i mean i get why people like tagging and all that organization but honestly i just find it overwhelming after a while. like i tried doing the whole project and date thing for my own stuff and it was great for like two weeks until i realized i was spending more time organizing my sources than actually reading them. idk maybe it's just me but i prefer keeping things more loose. i just throw everything into one folder and use the search function when i need to find something specific. works fine for me and i don't have to maintain a whole system.
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