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  • Different notes have different purposes

    Different notes have different purposes and knowing what kind of note you’re creating will help you figure out what you need to do with it. I used to think that a note was a note was a note. But there are actually different kinds of notes, each of which serves a different purpose. And if…

  • Capture literature notes from video with Zotero

    In this video I describe how I capture literature notes from video with Zotero. With the increase of video content online – especially academic content that’s now being recorded by default – I’ve been spending some time experimenting with different approaches to extracting useful information from video. Video remains something that’s a big challenge for…

  • Note-taking with Hypothesis and Zotero

    In this short video I demonstrate a strategy for note-taking with Hypothesis and Zotero while reading on the web. I try to show the early stages of creating links between ideas that I’m interested in, and eventually where I add those ideas into my permanent notes. One of the challenges of being an academic is…