Here at Emory, we're planning a workshop to introduce grad students to some digital tricks for managing their research assets (especially primary sources). We know that no one tool or technique will work for everyone, but we'd like to introduce our grad students to a few new ideas.
Here's the situation we're trying to address: A grad student in the dissertation-writing stage has gathered folders and folders of digital photos, PDF newspaper articles, research notes, maybe video clips and sound files. How does she organize this mess and make individual documents easily retrievable when she actually needs to write about them?
I'd love to know what software you use, how you use it, and any other tricks you can share. For my purposes, simpler is better, since we'll be introducing these techniques to non-programmers.
And we need a name for the workshop! Any ideas?
