With the number of people involved in "research", especially in computer science, you'd think researchers would have a set of tools that just work.
Unfortunately, this is not so :(
I've spent a good part of the day fighting with Citation/Annotation tools.
Why can't someone make one that works like you want it to?
I want to be able to include a resource from the web with one click (Amazon anyone?)
And I want to be able to drag references around (i.e. rearrange them), especially when I'm reusing them for a different research topic/paper. Who says Alphabetic order is the best way of doing things? I'm never going to manually search through my list of references so having them in alphabetic order doesn't do anything for me.
The database can store it however it wishes to, but give me the ability to move things around!...
Make it easy to annotate a document!. I don't want to go through 3 - 4 mouse clicks before I get to where I can add in one annotation. Its painful and it so does not support my research practice.
Writing this post is making me more livid instead of calming me.
Ok, back to brainless work - trying to get my papers and annotations organized
