korm & berndm, many thanks, those are great pointers
The historical research series was exactly the one I was thinking of that I read previously, so looking for more like this.
I’ll follow up on the other links that berndm suggests and also the suggested search string, but in the meantime a bit about my interests. I’m a self-employed analyst and consultant covering the scholarly publishing and scholarly communications worlds, primarily on the STM (scientific, technical and medical) side, though I’ve recently started to work for a couple of clients with interests in the social sciences and (digital) humanties (e.g. a mid-sized university press).
So I need to track publishing industry news, trends and market size developments etc.; technology developments affecting scholarly communication (web, content management, content creation, mobile); behavioural trends intersecting with these (e.g. social media); policy matters and development (e.g. research funders and governments’ policies regarding open access to research outputs).
An example of a publicly-available report I wrote is here: [The STM Report](markwareconsulting.com/categ … s-reports/
I’ve been using DTP for many years, but I don’t think I get the most out of it by any means, hence my post. I tend to just through everything in in full text (PDFs, web clippings, etc.), and hope to be able to find what I need when I come to research and write on a particularly topic. My current database is ~1.5GB and probably getting to the point where I need to do something to thin it out, but that seems like an unrewarding task I will probably put off indefinitely, and more likely just start a new one!
I also use Sente for bibliography management, though as I’m not primarily an academic writer I only use this occasionally, which gives me the issue of whether to store things in Sente, or in DTP, or both. (Inevitably there is no policy: some things are currently in one or the other or both, but I don’t know which!)
Also a longtime Scrivener user (from launch) and Tinderbox user.
Hope that paints a picture?