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How to manage theorist's “labbook”?
Question:
Are there any guidelines, sources, or examples of good practices for maintaining theorist's research notebook?
Motivation and context:
Maintaining a lab notebook is a much advised (if not ...
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What is the best way to read a textbook?
There's perhaps a better title for this question, but I can't immediate think of one - suggestions for amendment welcome.
I'd like to clarify the purpose of reading textbooks. It sounds obvious at ...
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How to annotate/summarize research papers for long-term retrieval?
I am new to my field (cell biology / immunology) and I would like to ask about the best practice to annotate or summarize research articles and reviews for long-term retrieval. When I start reading ...
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Tips for useful note-making when learning by oneself
When I'm learning new material, it helps me if I take notes (I usually use emacs org-mode). I read on Xournal (annotating on the way) and Alt+Tab to emacs to punch in important points. My question is:
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Do professors frown upon students who don't take notes?
I am a math student and never take notes in class. I feel like I am offending the professors by not taking notes. In general, do professors like students to be "active" during class? I have never ...
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Software/App for electronic research notebooks
I want to keep a research notebook for my computational "experiments". Basically, I should at least be able to write text and attach images like plots. Other nice features to have would be
linking ...
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How does making notes of what you read help you in research/teaching?
I have always refrained from making notes from my childhood. But now, my adviser wants me to make notes of what I study saying that it would be very beneficial for me in future. So, following his ...
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What are some good writing tablets for taking notes that are heavy on math/physics?
For the record, I'd like something to replace notebooks. I'm accumulating more and more notebooks, and they're a pain to tug around everywhere. Plus, notebooks are easy to get lost (I've lost ...
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Non-linear note-taking software
I'd be interested in tools helping to organize thoughts and ideas, especially in a non-linear way (i.e. not as most existing note taking tools, working with lists and bullets, but rather as a post-it ...
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Good practices for organizing notes
As a PhD student I generate a lot of pages with calculations, ideas and lecture notes.
Most of them are useful only for a short amount of time, but some may be important for much longer (when writing ...
