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2) Every day. Whenever I find something worth copy/pasting.
3) Only once in a while. But when I read back on my saved stuff, I have a lot of fun.
4) Copy and Paste to a rtf file, or anywhere I can paste text and images and add some formatting. Has to be simple, quick and easy to access. MS Wordpad is the best ever, and I'm not a MS Windows fan. Make sure to put a good title and include tag words that can be searched later.
5) That I can't find anything better than MS Wordpad. It has an I-don't-know-what kind of simplicity that makes it a pleasure to use. And I'm not a MS Windows fan.
There. The title already trying to manipulate the reader's opinion.
- File names that start with dates need to use yyyymmdd format.
- Avoid having too many subfolder branchings.
- Multiple pdf files are sometimes better to be combined into a single document.
- Have a TEMP folder to put all the stuff you are working with and that you will not mind erasing later. You should be confident to empty away this folder every few days without having to revise what's in it.
- Reorganize regularly (housekeeping) to maintain optimum file organization.
- Organize files as if to make it easy to find anything for a person who doesn't know where anything is. That person will be you in a couple of weeks.
This is from https://constitutioncenter.org/images/uploads/news/CNN_Aug_1...
I agree. It was people's negligence: the researcher's. They weren't serious about protecting their stuff. They keept important samples in a broken freezer, without lab UPS equipment. They did not rush to get someone to repair the freezer immediately. Did not transfer to another freezer...did not have a backup freezer.
Blaming the janitor is the proffesional researcher equivalent of "the dog ate my homework".