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Okay, I promised to share my thoughts this week on Paul Silvia's *How to Write a Lot* for #PhDSkills and since I'm at a break in the conference and it's Friday, I'd better do it now! Ready? #amwriting
Silvia's entire approach centers on writing productively. As in producing words, pages, articles, books, etc. And in his view, productive writing is a skill, which means you can learn how to do it. #PhDSkills #amwriting
My POV? I just wrote a lot. I turned in my dissertation last week. It included a massive data project and the research took years. But I wrote the whole thing in about a year; the vast majority of it in a 4-month window at the end of last year. #PhDSkills #amwriting
Last week I put together a thread about archive workflow () and said I'd create a thread about using DEVONThink as a tool for source analysis and management. Here it is. #phdskills #phdchat 1/
My primary source analysis is all done w/ @devontech DEVONThink Pro. As I said in my last thread, I drag and drop the PDFs from the archive directly into a “dissertation” database in DEVONThink Office Pro + run OCR on them. (I have diff databases for diff research projects.) 2/ 
DEVONThink is really powerful, but I only really use a couple of features regularly. The main thing I use it for is to take notes on primary sources, and I do that through the annotate function (shortcut: ALT + SHIFT + CMD + A). 3/
Inspired by folks at #phdskills, I've been thinking about my own research & writing flow as I finish the dissertation. I enjoy reading about others' workflow hacks & thought I’d share my own system +tools. I hope you'll add your own workflow experiences to the thread! #phdchat 1/
I’ll start in the archive for this thread. I use two apps, @TurboScanApp on my iPhone and @devontech (DEVONThink) on my mac to recreate the physical archive on digitally on my computer. 2/
I use @TurboScanApp on my iPhone to copy in individual folders as single PDFs. Eg I open the app, start a new scan, take a photo of the box id, a photo of the folder id, then scan each page into a single PDF. 3/
