How I Organize My Research Archive

Introduction

As (acting as of 04/14/2021) CTO of an incredibly complex product/services portfolio, I have a large amount of research material. I am writing this note on how I organize it and make it fully available to the world without any overhead on my part.

Short version:

Documents

This means PDF, print to PDF of web page, other file types (doc/xls/whatever)

Bookmark the link where'er is appropriate in my taxonomy.
Download the URI to ~/ResearchMaterial
calibre (on Raberry pi) is using ~/ResearchMaterial and that folder is synced via nextcloud to the corporate file server so I can also use Docear/Polar/Zotero on my x86 vm

NOtes

I use this git repository (notes-public) with a folder of markdown files.

I primarily use VsCode on the ras pi todo note taking (and of course longer document creation) Occasionally on mobile (iOS), I use Buffer and the WorkingCopy git client to make quick edits or capture something when I"m out and get inspired.

I heavily use Working Copy on my iPad Mini 5th Generation to do code review, issue cleanup etc and I use Calibre to load up a long research paepr and read it over. I also may access the folder directly via samba if I want to annotate.

Source material

https://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2013/05/organizing-my-research-life-updated/

More detailed version

Taxonomy

I use a single taxonomy across:

e-mail folders
bookmarks
home directory
notes folder (this repository)

It is:

❯ ls
Board  CEO  CFO  CIO  CMO  COO  CTO  dotfiles  dotfiles-git  landed  notes-public  personal  PFVEMer
 ~/charles                                                                                                                                                                       15:03:47 
❯

Board
CEO
CFO
CIO
COO
CMO
CTO

I then have division names or project/product names under those folders.

More coming soon , still dialing things in.

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