One of the ideas I borrowed from EN when I was still using
ProCite was
to use the EN distinction between Notes and Research Notes.
Notes = something which is "public" and which you
might want to attach
to a Reference in the refs list as a piece of info in the
public domain
(eg. "First edition had author names reversed.").
Research Notes = private things such as commentary, ideas
that came to
you, etc, and which you would not make public.
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In ProCite, I re-defined the useless 39 CODEN field to be
the "public"
Notes field, and the actual 42 Notes field to become my
"private"
Research Notes field.This was handy because you could
"turn off" field
42 in printing, which was handy when I would print my
summary 1-pagers
of references -- I could print something to give to others,
but turn off
my private stuff (like the Record ID, and the various other
fields like
44 Call Number which I used as a Status tracker for whether
I had the
ref in hardcopy, electronically, on my shelf, out to loan,
waiting for
inter-library loan, etc).
One of the things I miss about ProCite is the far more
powerful way of
designing output styles, with differential control over what
exactly
would be printable, at print time, rather than hard-wired
into the
output style. That and the better layout available in PC
compared to the
execrable format which EN X produces. *sigh* I suppose that
will come
with EN XIV 
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Joe
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>>> <Julie.Graves[juliegraves2000comcast.net]> 29/08/07 04:46 >>>
Hi EN folks -
I am on the verge of diving into a big lit review, and
wanted to ask for
your thoughts on using EN as a container for the notes one
takes on
readings (articles, etc.). I've seen/heard at various times
that some
people use EN for this purpose, but I wonder if they mean
that they
actually type their notes directly into the
"Notes" or "Research Notes"
fields, or if they simply mean that they attach a Word
document of their
notes on an article to the corresponding entry in EN?
I'd love to know what you feel are dis/advantages in this
regard - and
to hear, in general, your preferred methods of
taking/storing notes on
your reading.
THANKS!
Julie
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Julie Graves, M.S., M.S., LPC
PhD Student
University of Colorado, Boulder
Educational Psychology
Swinburne University of Technology
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