>>9971644i only print a paper out if i'm reviewing it, and only then 50% of the time... most of the time i just read it and take notes like
>L 50: sentence needs to be reworded because it's ambiguous what "leptons" refers towhen i was first trying to get into a research group i would print out papers and work through all the equations in my notebook, and print, highlight, and annotate papers and put them in a binder
then when i actually started DOING research that became less important, i'd just download the PDFs, skim the abstract, plots, conclusions, and maybe if i felt like it would be useful, copypaste the BibTeX into a text document. and only when there are reviews do i need to really take notes.
i guess once you're really doing your own research, it's not as important to keep track of other research articles, because everything in the ones that are relevant to your stuff are things you should just know, and irrelevant stuff is not worth the time
t. particle physics doctoral student graduating soon
