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Not to speak for Mek, but one hope I have is that these small personal notes automatically make their way onto places like OpenJournal and start to seed conversations. Something like a cross between ScienceBlogs and Twitter, with enough mini metadata to tie to the paper and paragraph.

Do you use a library management tool like Zotero or Mendeley for notetaking, or writing on printouts, or something else?

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I use zotero to manage my paper library and its wonderful. One of my favorite features is tag search. If I find a paper where they measure, say, the strength of a particular protein-DNA interaction that I'm interested in, but I know I'm never going to remember the title, I can just tag it with "Pnt binding strength" or something, and then search for it later.

Thanks James, tag / faceted search is something I've envisioned for openjournal. I'll start working on the feature.

I used to use plain text files. Recently I started using Mendeley because it's so damn convenient and it has a very nice UI, but my problems with Mendeley are (1) comments are private and (2) it's proprietary.

http://www.researchblogging.org/ is a great website that aggregates more long-form posts about papers, but it has a really shitty UI and it doesn't do anything for short comments on random papers by random non-bloggers.

Let's see what inspiration we can draw from researchblogging.org -- I've read a bunch of data driven / research oriented blogs (or blogs about [understanding] research) and found them helpful.

Research blogging is great, but just to clear up the misunderstanding, comments are only private on Mendeley if you make them in a private group. Public groups are open to the web.

I'm a fan of plaus, academia, and mendley, etc. I wish there was more of an outlet/community for people to contribute their own research (in a way that made the research repeatable and improvable)

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