Recently, a dear friend of mine was having troubles starting off her PhD. It happens to the best people, as you surely know.
I gave a look at my informal knowledge working system and decided to present it to her, hoping to help her get off the working slump. Now I am going to post it here, on my blog. Please give a look at it and tell me what you think. The main design goal was simplicity - keep it simple! Computers are supposed to help, not get in the way of work...!
QuicKWS – A quick working Knowledge Working System
This document describes QuicKWS that enables the knowledge work necessary for working on PhD or similar thesis. The necessary tools are a Windows computer, Microsoft Office and CVS. You can use LaTeX as well, because it’s a standard tool for scientific work. The file store is organized in two zones, as follows:
ZONE 1 – EXPLORATION WORK (alias Dress Casual)
/Ideas
/Calendar – write your working schedule and dead-lines
/Logs – files for registering activities, ideas, etc. No concerns on formatting. Just place /dump your info here. Never delete anything from this, just add. After one week or one month, just extract the most useful contents to deliverables or to summary logs
ZONE 2 – DELIVERABLES (alias Dress Formal)
/Thesis
/Subjects – place here documents written by you, with adequate source referencing
/Chapters – same as subjects, but to be used later on, while filling up material for the thesis’s chapters
/References – file store for all references used in the work
/A
...
/Z
/Zorro D. Jackson P., 2005
notes.doc – my notes on this reference
paper.pdf / html / … - actual paper
paper.bib – bibtex file describing the paper – for LaTeX users
or the next two files for non-latex users:
url.txt – text file whose contents are the reference URL
desc.txt – short text description of contents (abstract)
/ThesisCVS – CVS repository for all files contained in /Thesis (but not /Ideas)
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