Handbook for Doctoral Students in Education/Capturing and
organizing your research notes  From Wikibooks, open books for
an open world < Handbook for Doctoral Students in Education Jump
to: navigation, search  One of the fundamental tasks for
Doctoral students is to figure out to take and keep notes about
the reading and research he/she is conducting. Somehow, middle
school note cards seem a bit dated. Surely there are better ways
of doing this. The purpose of this chapter is for people to
write down how they keep their notes and find them later. The
skill of capturing information and storing it for later use is
something that every scholar must figure out for a successful
life of research.  Some people are visual. They want to see and
touch everything at the right time. You’ve heard of “just in
time inventory?” Well these folks like "just in time data!" Now,
some have been known to have strings hung from wall to wall in
their homes with their notes taped to the strings. That
certainly is visual!  Some people