Writing

• Today was a writing day. I have toggled between personal writing and proposal writing throughout the day; this helps me refocus when I feel like I am dragging.
• One major thing I will need to adjust moving forward is my literature review setup. I built a database in Notion that hold all of my papers, annotations, and purpose for the papers, but most of the papers I read and worked on before doing that in September don’t align with the new system and I cannot afford to go back and redo things at this moment… but I will need to make an adjustment so that when my MS proposal is finished, I don’t run into this again.
  • I also need to ensure the current setup is effective for me since I feel like I spend more time aligning my notes with the system rather than using the system to help me manage my notes.
  • One thing that helps that doesn’t exist yet is a place to keep an annotated bibliography by project - this will help me move quicker though the literature.
  • Another thing is to use a category versus tagging system as the tags are out of hand. My Notion + Zotero integration already imports the keywords from the papers as tags, having my own ‘tags’ group is just making a confusing mess,
  • Finally, I need a better way to see my notes in my properties - more aligned with how I take the notes, that make it easier to read without having to click through a million things.