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Ask HN: Are there any tools to help me visualize my research?
4 points by scied on April 28, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments
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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What, like Mendeley?

http://www.mendeley.com/


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.


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.


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


http://www.pubup.org/


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




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