In other words: Did I waste a lot of time? I don’t think the project I described in a previous post was a waste of time at all — there are two ways in which I think of the project: The mere act of going through the abstracts pointed out to me the articles that…
Read More Followup: Why bother to have abstracts for all my journal articles?One of the complaints that my students hear from their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) friends is that communication is such an “easy” discipline. In the first week or two of my Communication Theory and Theory and Research classes, we pretty quickly work on refuting that notion. We talk about how even the “simplest”…
Read More Polymaths and the Communication DisciplineEndNote 21 has a nice new feature where tags can be added to any reference. There are some peculiarities with tags, though, which is why I consider them a beta feature. I’ll mention here what I’d like to see changed, but even though tags are in their early stages, there are some legitimate use cases…
Read More EndNote 21: Tags vs Groups(Or why HoudahSpot is so awesome) When I moved from Minnesota to Georgia, I realized that I couldn’t take with me all of my old paper versions of my journals – there simply wasn’t space in my new office, and 26 years of being an academic with at least 10 journal issues per year =…
Read More Going into the Depths of MacOS metadata…