Organizing a PDF library: Mendeley for information extrac. I’ve been using Zotero for awhile now. I make no secret of the fact that I’m a big fan. In early July I was testing out Mendeley to give a workshop with a colleague who’s been excited about it. I wanted to see whether Mendeley could reduce any of my pain points. While I’m not moving to Mendeley*, I do plan to take advantage of its whizz-bang PDF organization. When Mendeley offers Zotero integration, I think I’ll be set. I spend a lot of time reading and pulling materials into my library; I spend far less time organizing materials. I usually have a “to read” pile lying around. Zotero had a small point of failure: I expected “get PDF metadata” to be in the Preferences menu, but I had to look up its location on their website. Of my 44 test cases, Zotero says “No matching references found.” on 26 of them.
Zotero’s ‘identification’ of the next article is even stranger: Capital, R. I wondered whether Mendeley was grabbing metadata from the files so I took a closer look at these two files. Google Tips. Search & Reference. Search tools. Search Engines. Sound. Evidence-based Nursing. Hidden web resources. Google Tips. Social web. Tips, tricks, aps. Web 2.0 Tools. Tips. Web. Online Health. Evidence Based Scheduling. Evidence Based Scheduling by Joel Spolsky Friday, October 26, 2007 Software developers don’t really like to make schedules. Usually, they try to get away without one. “It’ll be done when it’s done!” Most of the schedules you do see are halfhearted attempts. Hilarious! You want to be spending your time on things that get the most bang for the buck.
Why won’t developers make schedules? Over the last year or so at Fog Creek we’ve been developing a system that’s so easy even our grouchiest developers are willing to go along with it. The steeper the curve, the more confident you are that the ship date is real. Here’s how you do it. 1) Break ‘er down When I see a schedule measured in days, or even weeks, I know it’s not going to work. This forces you to actually figure out what you are going to do. If you are sloppy, and pick big three-week tasks (e.g., “Implement Ajax photo editor”), then you haven’t thought about what you are going to do. 2) Track elapsed time You can’t, really.
Anyway. Summary. Open Access Peer-Reviewed BioMedical and Scientifi. Back to School: 10 Great Web Apps for College Students. For a lot of college students, the new semester is just around the corner. Last year, we created a long list of great Web 2.0 tools that we thought would be helpful for college students. But given how fast things develop on the web, we thought we would revisit this topic again this year and look at some of the most useful Web 2.0 tools that have the potential to help students do better in school, collaborate with their fellow students, and save them time. Taking Notes 1) Evernote Evernote is a great note taking application, but that only scratches the surface of what it can do. You can also use it to bookmark web pages and write down your own lecture notes. 2) Google Notebook The Google Notebook is one of Google's lesser know products, but, thanks to a very well designed Firefox extension, it's a great tool for when you do most of your work in a browser already.
One additional nice feature is that you can invite collaborators to work on a notebook with you. Online Office Suites Bibliography. LILACS.