# Folders/ Tags for Academic Workflow

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**Created:** [May 16, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/folders-tags-for-academic-workflow/20038 "2016-05-16T13:58:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frederiko](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@Frederiko](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/Frederiko)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/folders-tags-for-academic-workflow/20038/4 "2016-05-19T15:05:10Z")

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> [@Kinsey](#):
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> Rachel Leow’s series on using Devonthink to organise historical research is very interesting and still relevant, even though it is almost five years old at this stage:  
> [idlethink.wordpress.com/2011/06 … esearch-i/](https://idlethink.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/on-devonthink-and-history-research-i/)

I agree that Rachel Leow’s series is a very good read but Devonthink has also moved on a lot from the time of the series and a lot of things she does manually in her post can be done much more efficiently. This post might provide some ideas : [url][Annotation Pane (Annotation with Links, Notes, Tags v3)](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/annotation-pane-annotation-with-links-notes-tags-v3/19889/1)]

Like Christopher I am a big proponent of regular review of one’s notes and the use of replicants. Working from either the tag view or a chronology view of annotations and source documents I replicate the documents into a folder structure akin to a table of contents for what I am writing. That way the relevant passages of my source material are already structured into the topics I am likely to be writing about. I also like to write up scraps of material as I go along which I similarly dump into the table of contents structure. Invariably I find by the time it comes to writing I already have substantially pieces of drafts and links to material which makes the hard work of actually turning out the finished product easier.

Frederiko

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