Five steps to stop losing track of literature

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This post was last edited by Pingdan Shi on 2015-8-15 at 18:47. In the face of an enormous volume of books, just the literature related to one’s own field of study can be overwhelming to organize; add to that the literature related to the research area as a whole, and the amount of material becomes extremely large. Therefore, when organizing literature, it is necessary to use certain methods so that it can be utilized more effectively later on, and so that essential documents are not lost. 　　1. When downloading electronic versions of documents (CAJ, PDF, HTML), paste the article title as the file name. Note that file names cannot contain special characters; remove \/, :*, |, and line breaks. Using the same *default filename each time can prevent duplicate downloads. 　　2. Different topics are stored in different folders. The folder titles should be brief, such as: PD, LTP, PKC, NO. 　　3. Put the reviewed literature into subfolders; at the very least, separate the useful from the useless ones. 　　4. For important documents, numbers such as 001, 002, 003 are added before the file name based on their importance, and the icons are arranged in order of name, with the most important documents appearing first. 　　5. For copied or printed documents, punch holes in them using a hole punch (￥10-15), and place them in a hard folder (￥10-20 per folder).