Organising new project materials

[theferry]

I’m coming to the end of a project and starting a new one soon. I’ve been incredibly disorganised with my current work. I’ve never found a system of organising
material that works for me. It’s been a mixture of handwritten notes and typed notes. Some material (esp articles) have been printed out, others I’ve saved electronically. I’m a historian so have thousands of pages/pictures of archival material, plus articles/books to deal with. I’ve lost so much time faffing around.

My new project is in a completely different area so this is my opportunity to start afresh and have some sort of system for organising everything.

I’m interested in what others do? Amy tipes? I work on a Mac and have an old-ish IPad and pen.

Have you ever looked at packages like Scrivener or Evernote - popular with writers who needs to organiser a lot of material? They are very versatile. I started using Scivener to organise material for an academic book at one point - but the project got derailed and I stopped using it. I really should use something like this though.

zotero for references & online materials

ipad + evernote for electronic materials (take photos of anything on paper). plus use an apple pens to take notes on the ipad rather than paper.

this is what I should do, in practice I also have a stack of messy undated notebooks & papers too.