I like to organize my literature review using various literature review tools along with two relational Notion databases: a ‘literature tracker’ and a ‘literature notes’ matrix. In this post, I’ll go through how I do my literature review and share a Notion template that you can use. I’ve essentially transferred all of my excel sheets into Notion databases and find it much easier to filter and sort things now. It’s kind of like your own personal wiki- you can link your pages and embed databases into another page, adding filters and sorting them using user-set properties. Notion is an organization application that allows you to make various pages and databases. I don’t hav it all worked out yet, some parts are working fine others not so much but my goal is a way to easily search no only for books I own but also my notes on those books and linking them to other reference material like the scientific papers I store in Zotero.I’ve recently revamped my literature review workflow since discovering Notion. and all into a series of linked notes in Obsidian. In the past I’d have done that task in DEVONThink but as I’ve explained in detail elsewhere I am moving out of DT entirely.Īctually I’m currently looking at incorporating references into my Bookpedia database with annotations and highlights I make on my kindle books and with notes I make in GoodNotes for paper books handwriting recog. ![]() If I hadn’t just spent hours entering in all my kindle and paper books into Bookpedia I’d probably do it in Obsidian only because that would consolidate my apps. Queries might be harder to write but could be done. Add in some basic data gathering via templates and I think it might work. ![]() That to me looks like a note program that allows photos as attachments makes a lot more sense. ![]() For Bookpedia I’d either have to jam it in as plaintext all into one field in summary/comments, or a custom field, or perhaps use comments on the ‘last read’ feature. The thing that is making this search difficult is wanting a fairly robust history for each item (ideally with its own custom fields, though I don’t think I am going to find that.) Each history item would be its own separate entry and joined to the book, and would be searchable. Zotero notes on books may be the answer despite that it isn’t really a history, just an arbitrarily sorted collection of appended pieces of data, and Zotero cloud would need to be involved to scan books from the phone (there’s a Siri Shortcut.) BookPedia is probably a top three contender at this point, though, for sure, despite limitations. Something like Notion or Airtable would handle the data model fine but for the local requirement (basically children being involved in curation, plus privacy, plus wanting an actual desktop app.) That’s why I was wondering about hacking the sqlite db since I could maybe make a new table and join events with books–but then I wouldn’t have it in the UI. Look under preferences, autofill and set what things you want toallow for each of the various fields and they will show up as options if you click on the updown arrows on the right of the custom fields in the Extras for each bookįor custom fields, that would work. If I understand what you want you want to set up possible options and pick from a list? If so yes you can do that in the custom fields.
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