Nils Bühler – Digital Knowledge Management
This section of the blog covers digital knowledge management for researchers: effective workflows, tools, and strategies for organizing research notes, literature references, and concepts. Topics include Zotero, Obsidian, Markdown editors, and other digital tools for academic work.
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What Makes a Good Research Workflow?
In a dissertation or other academic work, a bibliography with 300 entries is not uncommon. But even this number doesn't reflect the countless sources that go into a research project: further literature, unlisted primary sources, conference notes, and feedback from colleagues. A central task when writing a PhD thesis or an academic article is to productively relate all these individual items to each other. It's possible to manage this with pen and paper, file folders, individual Word documents, and marked PDF files. Many successful researchers do it this way. However, bringing all these sources together is the ideal use case for a digital solution. What you need is a note system that is flexible enough to adapt to complex projects, can link individual elements together, is quickly searchable, and automates repetitive tasks for you. In this blog post, I want to demonstrate why it's worth investing time in optimizing your own workflow and in a productive note-taking system.