Ask HN: Are there any tools to help me visualize my research?

Posted by scied on Saturday April 28, 2012 @12:14AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I spend a lot of time reading research papers and writing summaries-- I currently just have a growing text file of these mini-reviews.

I'm looking for a way to better visually organize my work-- mostly by topic, but since many of these papers reference each other I'd like to be able to easily see these connections as well.

Any recommendations?

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Re:Ask HN: Are there any tools to help me visualize my resea... by dylanhassinger on Saturday April 28, 2012 @03:01AM (#3902255)

I'm working on this problem, sign up here to follow along - http://zenpad.com

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Re:Ask HN: Are there any tools to help me visualize my resea... by epikur on Saturday April 28, 2012 @01:18AM (#3902103)

What, like Mendeley?

http://www.mendeley.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Are there any tools to help me visualize my resea... by queensnake on Saturday April 28, 2012 @03:52AM (#3902337)

Well it's lo-tech, and no visualization, but, I use a wiki. It allows you to markup, pull out concepts and facts and easily linkify everything. Better than plain text at least.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there any tools to help me visualize my resea... by glimcat on Saturday April 28, 2012 @01:34AM (#3902126)

Intranet site, Wordpress install, search function.

Or internet site, if your summaries are of sufficient quality that you wouldn't be too ashamed to let others see.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there any tools to help me visualize my resea... by diggan on Saturday April 28, 2012 @08:11AM (#3902755)

A Mediawiki (or other similar wiki software) will probably help you and is pretty simple to install on a local machine.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there any tools to help me visualize my resea... by wenxun on Saturday April 28, 2012 @01:33AM (#3902125)

http://www.pubup.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Are there any tools to help me visualize my resea... by ableal on Saturday April 28, 2012 @01:04AM (#3902081)

Look up graph visualization, and see if any of the tools that pop up meets your needs.

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