alexr_rwx: (my fandom writes your software)
Alex R ([personal profile] alexr_rwx) wrote2006-04-28 01:07 am

Question for you!

Academic and studently sorts! What do you do with papers that other people wrote? You get this fresh shiny article, full of really important information that you're going to use or whatever...

Do you have them nicely organized in folders, by topic and author? Do you just delete them? Are they PDFs? postscript? Word docs?

What if you had something that was kind of iTunes-like, but for papers and slides and stuff, and you could sort and search and organize and have a central place to stash all of them? What if I wrote something like that, and it was cross-platform and easy to use and exciting and awesome?

[identity profile] gtv42.livejournal.com 2006-04-28 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a seperate step in my mind. And the same sort of functionality might be useful in identifying connections between source documents; if you have a pool of papers that you've collected over time, useful connections between them might go unnoticed. If the program looks at all the documents dogeared for an active paper, it could see what they have in common (on a superficial level, at least) and look for that in other places. Wouldn't often yield tremendous insight, but it could be handy.