Strategy: Highlighting and Colour coding folders
4 Keywords: Colour Coding, Highlighting, Folders, Highlight Text
"I find it really useful when writing my lit. reviews, to go through and highlight the documents and save it with the highlights on. Because you just have reams and reams of information that you have to read. If you can quickly go back to the highlighted section you know that is the bit you want, and also you can go back and check that you haven’t plagiarised it and make sure you haven’t written the same sentence because most often the way they have said it is the absolutely perfect way to say it and you think ‘if I could just say it that way without copying what you said!’
Do you ‘Folder’ things?
"Yes, everything – and colour-coded, and I wouldn’t be able to control a paper version. It would be a big filing cabinet."
Change the icons for folders by putting your mouse over the folder, click right hand mouse button or the 'context menu key' positioned between the right hand side Alt and Ctrl keys. Choose properties - customise - change icon
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"This was during the first year – trying to find a way of working that was good for me – the organising of it, and using folders, colour-coding and using icons for the folders."
- GemmaTip
If you are using Vista and have made so many folders that searching becomes difficult try stacking or grouping them in alpahbetical order - A - H, I - P and Q - Z by using the little arrow key in the title bar by the 'Name' in Windows Explorer.
