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Demystifying Dissertation Writing Part 1: Chapters 1-5

Posted in Being a scholar, Dissertation, Graduate school, Organization, Reading, Tools, Writing on July 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »

In order to move myself forward on this process I have been reading Demystifying Dissertation Writing:A Streamlined Process from Choice of Topic to Final Text by Peg Boyle Single.  This is a different type of book from many of the other dissertation-writing guides out there, in that it’s goal is to present an organized process [...]

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How I use OneNote for my Dissertation

Posted in Being a scholar, Dissertation, Organization, Productivity, Writing on June 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The question came up recently about how I am using OneNote for my dissertation note taking.  Sometimes show is easier than tell. I have one OneNote notebook called Dissertation.  Within it, I have 8 sections: A few things about this: The first 5 sections reflect the 5 chapters required in my dissertation: Introduction, Literature Review, [...]

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Integrating a new cell phone into my life

Posted in Organization, Productivity, Technology, Tools on March 16, 2010 | Comments Off

At my prior job I had a blackberry, and over the years I became very adept at using it.  My new organization only gives blackberries to those who travel a lot so I had to, for the first time in half a decade, buy myself a new phone.   We had a contract with T-Mobile, but [...]

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I will not become a statistic….

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Dissertation, Graduate school, Organization, Productivity, tagged , , , on December 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

They used to say that only 50% of those who start a doctorate finish.  Updated statistics in the social sciences says that number (10-year completion) is more like 56%, but that still leaves 44% unfinished and (in most programs like mine that have a time limit) unfinishable.  It isn’t the course work;  16% opt out [...]

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Review: GTDAgenda.com

Posted in GTD specific, Organization, Productivity, Technology, Tools on October 18, 2009 | Comments Off

A few months ago I was contacted by the developer of gtdagenda.com and offered an premium account that I could evaluate and, if I wanted, review.  I have now been using the site for several months and wanted to post a review of my experience. What is gtdagenda? gtdagenda.com is a web-based implementation of David [...]

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Kicken’ it old school: paper for some things

Posted in GTD specific, Organization, Productivity, Technology on September 20, 2009 | Comments Off

On the one hand, I really WANT to be able to use an electronic planner, note taking system and organizational process.  I’ve tried a number of them, and some (OneNote for my dissertation and my Inbox as a to do queue) are still in use.  But not all. I have reverted to paper note taking [...]

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Backups are one of your most important tasks…

Posted in Organization, Productivity, Technology, Tools on July 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Modern academic work is centered on our computers; data storage and analysis, writing, research, reference libraries, and often collaboration with our peers all require working computers. It is for this reason that keeping good backups is paramount to success as an academic. There are a number of techniques for keeping good backups as an academic.  [...]

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A new (to me) tool for keeping up with the literature

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Dissertation, Organization, Productivity, Technology, Tools on June 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

One of the most challenging parts of being an academic is keeping up with all the new literature that comes out. We live in a publish-or-perish world, and that means the most active academics are putting out several new articles per year that we need to at least be aware of. You may know already [...]

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OneNote vs Evernote, Round Two

Posted in Organization, Technology, Tools on June 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »

A couple of weeks ago I posted about my own decision process between OneNote and Evernote;  To skip to the end, the result for me was OneNote.  Interestingly, Lifehacker started a thread asking people which tool they prefer.  More interesting than the poll is the comments.  Here are some comments that jumped out at me: [...]

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Technology Experiment Updates

Posted in Organization, Productivity, Technology, Tools on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Over the time I have been writing here I have talked about a number of different technology experiments regarding making myself more productive.  Some have been successful, while others haven’t.  Time for an updated on some of what I’ve tried. A voice recorder and Dragon Naturally Speaking for note taking while reading: The experiment: I [...]

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