Miki Shaw's blog

Reference Management Software

- that's Wikipedia's collective term for programs like EndNote - databases which let you store bibliographic references.

I just went to a training session today about EndNote, which looks good (and interfaces well with Word) but as usual, I'm now searching for the best free alternative.

So I've discovered Zotero. I shall give it a whirl. Anyone else used it?

Never-ending list trauma

Over the last month I've read and started implementing the "Getting Things Done" (GTD) system into my life.
The main aim of the game is to get all the "stuff" out of your head, out of the miscellaneous piles of paper littering your life, and into sensible folders and categories at which point you can efficiently deal with them and mark them "done".
So I've been using this, and found that it does indeed make me feel self-righteously organised. Well, a bit more organised anyway. So I fully expected to see my "action" list (for the benefit of those not initiated into GTD, thats like a "to do" list) shrinking as the weeks passed. But in fact it seems to be growing.

Its like the phrase "the more you learn, the more you realise how little you know". But in this case: "The more organised you are, the more you realise how many things you've got to do". This is a depressing thought. Someone please tell me I'm wrong.