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Prolific Researcher Playbook by Bianca Pereira

Everyone can be a researcher. Weekly tips on how to beat perfectionism, manage your knowledge, and create your original contribution.

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How to Build a Tag and Folder System to Organise your Notes

Hello Reader, The top question I get asked is “Which app should I use for my note-taking system"?” The second one is the one we will be talking about in today’s Playbook. Which system of tags and folders should I use for my notes and sources? First, a disclaimer. On 29th April 2022, I chose to go folderless for the first time and I never looked back. Bianca Pereira @BiaResearcher After yesterday's chat, trying to go folderless with @obsdmd. Choosing between a side bar menu or using my...

2 days ago • 4 min read

Hello Reader, Today I have a little story to share with you*. Once upon a time, there was a group of professors who sat together to discuss the goals of the educational system. If we judge by current academic meetings they probably had some cheap coffee and chewy sandwiches. After long discussions and feeling happy about their exchange of ideas, they all left for their respective Universities to live on with their lives. One of them though was too excited to just go back to business as usual....

15 days ago • 4 min read

Hello Reader, Do you have an evidence-based curriculum? I bet you spent years learning a ton of things and acquiring experience in whatever it is you chose to work with (or deeply engage as a hobby). But if I ask you to send me RIGHT NOW a curated collection of works that demonstrates you have the knowledge you claim you have, what would you send? … Please, stop for a second to answer this question: What would YOU send? … Most people would answer with a curriculum with a list of claims:...

22 days ago • 4 min read

This week we have one more issue dedicated to the 6 skills of Personal Knowledge Management. If you lost the previous issues, read them here: 6 PKM skills Active note-taking Active reading Idea Management Networked Reading Argumentation Hello Reader, The ultimate goal of research is to create knowledge, both personal knowledge and collective understanding. But how can you do it? First, as a process, it helps us create personal knowledge about a given phenomenon. We can curate sources,...

30 days ago • 6 min read

This week we have one more issue dedicated to the 6 skills of Personal Knowledge Management. If you lost the previous issues, read them here: 6 PKM skills Active note-taking Active reading Idea Management Networked Reading Hello Reader, Have you ever heard the expression “Explain to me as if I was 5 years old”? The intention is to ask the other person to simplify their thinking, but I always question myself: Why 5? I think it is starting to make sense to me. I travelled through Chile and...

about 1 month ago • 4 min read

This week we have one more issue dedicated to the 6 skills of Personal Knowledge Management. If you lost the previous issues, read them here: 6 PKM skills Active note-taking Active reading Idea Management Hello Reader, In previous issues, we covered three foundational skills for Personal Knowledge Management (PKM): Active Note-Taking, Active Reading, and Idea Management. These 3 skills support us in remembering ideas we come across, boosting our understanding of our sources, and allowing us...

about 2 months ago • 4 min read

This week we have one more issue dedicated to the 6 skills of Personal Knowledge Management. If you lost the previous issues, read them here: 6 PKM skills Active note-taking Active reading Idea Management Hello Reader, In the last issue, I discussed how the use of links in note-taking apps created a revolution in how we take notes. Before, notes were isolated documents. Now notes can be linked to each other (just like in websites). So we can stop organising notes as documents and start...

about 2 months ago • 4 min read

This week we have one more issue dedicated to the 6 skills of Personal Knowledge Management. If you lost the previous issues, read them here: 6 PKM skills Active note-taking Active reading Idea Management Hello Reader, In 2020, the world was about to change. It was the year the COVID pandemic hit us, OpenAI was brewing a new algorithm (that became chatGPT later on), and it was also the year when the Obsidian app was first released. The Notion app had already introduced the idea of databases...

2 months ago • 3 min read

This week we have one more issue dedicated to the 6 skills of Personal Knowledge Management. If you lost the previous issues, read them here: 6 PKM skills Active note-taking Active reading Idea Management Hello Reader, In the last issue, I mentioned how hard it is to find an idea in a pile of notes. This is still the case if you have the same idea spread around multiple notes with enigmatic names. If an idea can be in multiple notes, when do you stop searching for it? As a solution, I...

2 months ago • 4 min read

This week we have one more issue dedicated to the 6 skills of Personal Knowledge Management. If you lost the previous issues, read them here: 6 PKM skills Active note-taking Active reading Hello Reader, I have good and bad news. The good news is that if you have followed my advice about active note-taking and active reading for a while, then you can easily express yourself and understand your sources in depth. The bad news is: you now have a pile of notes! A depiction of what awaits you at...

3 months ago • 4 min read
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