Can software help mathematicians to keep up with the neverending (sic) flood of new research material? In the past I touched this already… Recently, there is a new fairly active Google group the efficient academic which describes its interests as

Professors, Instructors, and Graduate Students interested in getting things done more easily and quickly. We discuss organization, task management, and tools that helps us to be more productive and not procrastinate. We tend to discuss David Allen’s GTD system but not exclusively. (278 members)

Personally, I think GTD is far too management-driven to be useful in research, but I’m equally convinced that there are nice programs around that I have to delve deeper into, in particular DevonThinkPro.
Fortunately, Serkan Cabi has written two interesting posts on applications of DevonThink to physics-research :

• DEVONthink for Scientists: Part I
• DEVONthink for Scientists: Part II

which can help me a bit. In the second post appears another useful resource for the average desperate present-day ringtheorist. Joanna Karczmarek can help you to put the Hep-th on Your Harddrive. A mere 8Gb containing all material published on hep-th over the years, just waiting to be put in a database-tool like DevonThink or, if you still need an excuse to buy one, on your iPod to read on your daily commute…

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Posted in general, iMath
Written on Tue, 10 January 2006 at 2:58 pm
Tags: google, groups, GTD
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