I’ve recently revamped my literature review workflow since discovering Notion. Notion is an organization application that allows you to make various pages and databases. 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
When I started my PhD, I was quite intimidated by the prospect of reading scientific papers. I had read some literature during my master’s research, but for my doctorate, I felt I needed to develop a much better system for reading papers and retaining what I read. Over the last few years, I’ve honed my paper reading skills and thought I’d share my own system.
It’s been a while since I started my PhD so I’ve been reflecting a lot on my first two years and wanted to share some of the most important lessons I’ve learnt so far.