I've put this thread in Chat as I wasn't really sure where else it should go!
I used to be a consultant in the private sector but I've had a career change and I now work for a research institute. I've always been an inveterate note taker but now that my notes need to be more detailed as some of them start to form the basis of academic research and they cover a range of subject areas in some depth, I'm struggling with how best to organise it all. There are three or four distinct research areas that I focus on and they're quite current so there are a lot of newspaper articles / other research that comes out all the time. I tend to just jot things down in my notepaper as they come but that doesn't feel so robust anymore and I struggle to find things or make connections between them.
Does anyone have any advice? I have a mild preference for handwritten systems (as I wrote notes on meetings and absolutely hate it when people write on a laptop in a meeting) but I can see that it's probably more practical to have something electronic. Would a word doc for each topic be enough? Any magic tricks? As basic as you think I need as I'm getting overwhelmed by 'stuff' right now.
Thank you!