Sunday, January 11, 2015
Time for a proper research log
I have decided that I am far to scatter-brained to be an efficient genealogist. I chase too many leads and move to fast. I've been inspired recently by Thomas MacEntee's Genealogy Do-Over in the last few weeks and especially his post on slowing down. A post just now from the Genealogy Tip of the Day blog pushed me over the edge. I've been stupid for not just keeping a diary of research notes - jotting down what I did on a particular day. Time to start. I'm going to create a 'Genealogy Research Journal' notebook in Evernote with a note for each month where I'll just track what I'm doing. So from now on when I think, "what was that thing I saw that one time and didn't think was worthwhile at the time," I'll have a place to go and find it besides my very spotty memory.
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Evernote is my savior. Everything goes in there in surname files- copies of documents, my analysis, and where I need to go next. Each has the citation at the top, and I also put all the citations in their own folder. I have a folder specifically for "stuff to look at later". What MacEntee calls BSOs (bright shiny objects that distract).
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