Scientific writing can be made easier with the right note-taking tools and workflows.
Unlock the power of @tana_inc and other #TfT tools like Notion or Obsidian to easily read, highlight, and synthesize academic literature.
First, you want to import the metadata from Zotero.
Once you add the gist linked below as an option in Zotero:
• ⌘ ⇧ C on a Zotero item to copy the metadata
• ⌘ V on a @tana_inc node to paste
github.com/eurunuela/zotero_tana_export
You can edit the metadata to follow a template of your liking.
Here's the one I use to keep track of topics, authors, journals, etc.
I even have a "read"/"unread" status to filter the papers I have in @tana_inc.
Reading and highlighting happen in Zotero.
Once done, I extract the highlights from Zotero and paste them into @tana_inc.
In @tana_inc, I tag the highlights with the "quote" supertag.
And here is where the magic happens.
I write literature notes of relevant highlights and their attributes get automatically filled up, so I never lose the context of my literature notes.
Once I'm done reading papers and writing literature notes, I write permanent notes.
These are going to be the pieces that I copy over to any manuscript that I'm writing.
With @tana_inc's attributes, I can assign a topic, link the note to other notes, and see its origin.
Finally, whenever it is time to write, all I have to do is go through my permanent notes on a given topic and bring them over to the manuscript.
I also have the papers, permanent notes, literature notes, list of topics, and authors pinned to the sidebar.
This way, I can find my notes and their context very easily and I can stay on top of my literature review.
I took one of @cortexfutura’s frameworks and adapted it to my needs.
If you think this workflow is useful to you, download my Academic Literature Review template for @tana_inc from the following link 👇
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