Scientific Research
Notes on how to do research, workflow and tools I find useful.
Research Process
- Do some preliminary literature research and find a research gap
- How to find a Research Topic
- How to find Research Papers
- Save interesting papers in Zotero
- How to read Research Papers
- How to highlight Research Papers
- Devise a Research Question and Hypothesis
- Start with a Table of Contents and structure your points to ensure a red thread (from Scientific Writing)
- Draft an Outline containing relevant research paper annotations
- Start with a copy the structure
- Add relevant research paper annotations below Headings and Bullet Points
- You can just
Ctrl+ca Zotero annotation to the Outline
- You can just
It’s also helpful to separate tasks by weekdays (finding papers, annotating papers, outlining, writing, organization)
Tools
- I use Zotero for refence management
- Zotero allows tagging documents, automatic meta-data collection and has built in PDF highlighting.
- Use the Firefox Zotero Import Plugin to add PDFs to your Zotero Collection with 1 click
- Add the Zotero Plugin BetterBibTex Plugin for exporting a collection to a
.bibfile - You can also store the Zotero papers in your Nextcloud via WebDav
- I use Obsidian for writing the Structure and Outlining
- use Obsidian Zotero Integration plugin to import annotations into a Literature Note