![]() ![]() My workflow is similar except that, obviously, MarginNote wouldn’t be too helpful. I don’t sit through many lectures nowadays, but do many conferences. Devonthink is my safe place for stuff, but also the place I do powerful searches that span all my texts and notes at the same time. Zettels from Tinderbox get exported to Devonthink, however. I don’t export my notes because as mentioned, I’m basically done with them. More importantly, the texts always get put into Devonthink. I can therefore, generally speaking, remove texts from MN. A page number is included as an attribute. That said, my zettels already have citation information linked to them, and plenty of copy pasted quotes if I figure they were important. It’s likely I’ll only return to find quotes and so the highlights could potentially serve a purpose again. I will likely never look at this information again. At this point, I deem my MarginNotes and/or highlights, mind maps, or anything else created in the above process as complete. The actionable items I have just come up with go into my GTD app, currently Todoist. Will I read something referenced before to get more info? Will I follow up on questions I have? Do some of my questions follow some pattern, as to be deemed important? Finally, I decide what my next steps will be. Things are moved around on the map and grouped unofficially. Gaps in research, especially ones that I could exploit in my study, are added to a Gaps container. Any questions that come up are also added to a Questioins container. Any references made that are worth following up, I add to a To Read container in Tinberbox. Anything I didn’t understand fully, I re-read (easy to do thanks to MN). The purpose of all this is that I’m forced then to asimilate/synthesise the new information. They are also linked (kind of like on a mindmap) to other notes and aliases elsewhere on the map (kind of like in Mind Node). Instead, aliases are made of them so that they can appear in other places within my note taking structure (map/outline). The Zettels are not organized in any way. ![]() Each Zettle is one single idea, and I brainstorm any questions that I have, weaknesses in the arguemnts that I’m noting about, etc. Attributes are added to these notes about people about dates they’ve been active in their fields. People contains notes with pics of authors, and snippets of info on them (usually taken from a wiki). The first is a container of citations, and the second a container named people. Each zettle is then linked to, at a bare minimum, two different places. But Tinderbox is a note taking, idea synthesizing playground that is hard to explain, intimidating to start using (just cause it has so many advanced features–but they’re hidden so there’s no need to be scared) but that is on a whole different level. You could very well stay within MarginNote. One nice aspect of Zettelkasten is that the tool of choice doesn’t matter so much. No matter how I play with my notes and new ideas, I create completely new notes in Tinderbox, adhering to the Zettelkasten approach, as mentioned above. This involves possibly using the mindmapping tools within MN or external mindmapping tools, usually MindNode, if I need to understand systems that were explained. The second step is to synthesise and assimilate the highlights and my rapid notes into a summary and proper notes. The point is not to loose focus on what I’m reading, while not forgetting thoughts that arise while reading. I consider it something like rapid logging in a bullet journal. I don’t put too much thoughts into my notes and highlight indiscriminately. I highlight and make, well, margin notes. I’m not sure if you’re asking about specific ways to use MN or about academic workflows in general. My current academic workflow, which is changing, shifting and developing all the time, might not be what you want to know. I’ve been using MarginNote for a few years. I’m writing my dissertation at the moment. I’m a masters student, studying applied linguistics. ![]()
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