Recently I am writing my theis proposal. I read the former papers again, and I try to classify them into different folders. The problem is that I have at least three ways to group the papers:
- into have-read or not-finished;
- into state-of-the-art or related-work;
- into most-important, worth-reading, little-related;
I have tried to rename the file to specify the above information, but I still don’t like it. Usually we read a lot of papers, and we try to write a summary to abstract the novelty of the paper and compare it with our own work. How do we relate those information with each paper? I write the summary with latex, so I can associate each summary with its bibtex. However, it is still not convinient for me to find the paper in my disk. Maybe I should rename all the papers with their index in bibliography, plus the above classification information.
I think the work may be troublsome and inefficient. Is there an efficient tool for managing and organizing the files in disk? The tool can support multiple classfications and attach other information for the files. Additionally, it supports advanced queries: not only the typical ones like name, author, key words and etc, but also the complexed ones like most frequently read, most related, latest, and etc. I am not sure.
