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From: HBX@PSUVM.BITNET (Terry Harrison 336 Beam BAB 3-3357)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Organizing free form data
Message-ID: <89312.110008HBX@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 8 Nov 89 16:00:08 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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i need a reference to a particular type of software, although i am not
sure that it exists.  i suspect that other net readers would also
welcome some pointers in this direction.

i earn my living as an academic.  so i read lots of papers and make
references to other's work in the papers i write.  however, i find
that i read many more papers than i used to, and am having trouble
keeping track of where i found a particular idea.  i used to be able to
track all of this in my head but am not so successful anymore.

what i would dearly like to find is a (database?) package that lets me
put in free form statements like:
PARALLEL PROCESSING-ANOMALOUS SPEEDUPS-MULTIOBJECTIVE LINEAR PROGAMMING-
ORSA JOURNAL OF COMPUTING
etc.  then i would like to be able to search through this in a number of
different ways.  my primary aim is to build some form of
electronic storage of the main ideas of my reading in a way that i can
conveniently access it later.

perhaps someone has already implemented a means for doing this kind of
thing.  i would very much like to hear about it.  if enough people respond
directly to me via e-mail, i will summarize and post.
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Terry Harrison
Management Science Department
Penn State University
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