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Fabienne Mannherz's avatar

Such a huge topic, Vicky! Especially at the very beginning (and even before the actual start) of my PhD, I found myself going crazy about THE BEST note-taking system. I also experimented with the tablet and pen, but I always return to handwriting. Right now, I have a single notebook for any notes related to my PhD and a smaller one for daily task lists. Works fine so far.

I don't add notes to books or papers. Actually, for reading papers, I use my tablet and do highlights and have a system for marking things related to "question, evidence & conclusions".

I started a common place book for notes related to research papers but it did not really do the trick for me. Still need to figure out the best way of note taking for literature review and paper writing...

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Eugenia Loras's avatar

Your note-taking skills are exemplary, Vicky , and I am very happy how you have influenced Maggie and Nikolas. Thanks a million!

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