Digital Academic Workflow: An Overview. [Parts of this post were posted on GradHacker.org, a great blog. This is the expanded edition] To begin at the beginning (of a very long post), a ‘digital academic workflow’ is, at its base, a way of keeping on top of all the immense amount of material that a graduate [...]
One of the primary inconveniences of running your academic workflow digitally is that you are forced to operate within a world that, while moving towards the digital realm, is just not there quite yet. Paper pervades our lives, and while it is tempting to try to split your attention between what is easily accessible in [...]
Thoughts on The Angel of History A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned [...]
The Bracket Racket Sente uses an interesting bracket system to integrate with word processors; basically what this means is that you can insert your reference inside curly brackets like this: {Foucault 1978} and Sente will insert the reference information in between the brackets in your desired format at a later point in time. By [...]
Best Practices This post is my version of a ‘best practices’ for setting up DEVONthink databases to work with your digital academic workflow. One of the great advantages of DEVONthink is that you can setup your databases in whatever way makes sense to you. You can run one or multiple databases and search across [...]
With Sente and DEVONthink together you have a few options for how you want to organize and synchronize your workflow; I will focus on the two main methods that I use. The first involves synching your entire Sente attachments folder, which works great for that large ‘kitchen sink’ research database that you may maintain [...]
How to use Scrivener The beauty of Scrivener for academic writing is that, in short, it takes a more non-linear approach to outlining, gathering research information and finally to writing itself than traditional text editors. Once I get past the length of writing where I can really keep track of everything —argument, evidence, organization—in my [...]
In my post on why you should use DEVONthink for digital academic workflow, I threw something of a temper tantrum over my main issue with the software: namely, its lack of a proper syncing function for sharing identical databases across multiple computers. In this follow up, I’d like to explain the work-around that am currently [...]
Some thoughts on the social web, having read too much Deleuze recently. To be re-visited at a later date. Initially the internet was designed as a way to organize data in a form that mimicked human thinking, it introduced hierarchies, directories, stratification; it introduced roots—a telling term in information technologies and in Deleuze’s thought, the [...]
Why You Should Use DEVONthink Pro Office for Your Digital Academic Workflow: Pt. II Using DEVONthink Pro Office as a part of your Digital Academic Workflow has a number of advantages, with a few notable disadvantages that mainly involve learning the program and setting up your database(s). This post goes over some of those [...]
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