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 Subject :Organizing research material.. 07-10-2010 00:56:37 
mantra
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Jillann or anyone else who may be able to help,

I’m looking for the most efficient way of organizing research material as I’m accumulating it daily. As I assume everyone else does, I’m sourcing books, newspapers, magazines etc as well as online printed material, video and audio files but I’m going under fast.   I’m using word to create a basic file but is there something else out there that’s better?  Any tips would be much appreciated.  Being something of an anomaly it appears, I’m on a PC.

Also I haven’t had any success importing the iCal fundraising calendar file for use on the said PC.  I tried two google-inspired approaches – Topalt Calendar and Thunderbird but neither showed any appointments other than ITVS for Jan 2010…  Any suggestions on how to proceed would again be much appreciated.

 

Thanks heaps.

Mike Hinchey
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 Subject :Re:Organizing research material.. 12-10-2010 23:55:33 
jilann
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I've found the good old 3 ring binder indispensible when doing tons of research. I like printing everything out and having it in front of me, rather than on computer files. So, I print out the good articles from the web, or photocopy them from magazines,etc.., highlight the good info and categorize it into a research binder. As for the video and audio files - have a section in the notebook where you keep your notes about them for quick reference. One helpful thing about word documents is that you can do a word search with the FIND tool (found in the Edit menu bar on a Mac, not sure how to use this on a PC). So, when you're swimming thru stuff and looking for something in particular, you can use the FIND tool. Also, keeping a list of materials - a sort of digest or table of contents- at the beginning of the 3 ring notebook is helpful to find things quickly. And I just sent you guys a new Calendar - so hopefully this one works better and gives you all of the events.
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