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hyporational comments on Open Thread, October 7 - October 12, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 07 October 2013 03:45:27PM 11 points [-]

We like our referencing here on Less Wrong. Reference-heavy people (gwern, Yvain, lukeprog, I'm looking at you), do you have some system for keeping track of your common go-to references that you use over and over again in multiple pieces of work?

I'm kind of expecting "yes, I have a dirty great text file" as a response to this, but perhaps hoping for something more awesome.

Comment author: hyporational 12 October 2013 06:05:43AM *  3 points [-]

I'm writing a literature review at the moment, and use Evernote to organize the references. I tag them with year, subject, type, language. I give each reference a number. I abbreviate the conclusions of the references in the notes that contain the original articles as pdf files, and will finally use those snippets to construct the review article.