Do you backup? Good. But not good enough. First, lets talk about backup. A good backup strategy should be regular, redundant, and involve multiple locations. Regular, so that you don’t have to ...
https://savageminds.org/2016/08/16/archiving-for-the-longue-duree-tools-we-use/
About a year ago I wrote a long post that discussed both my general approach to working with academic PDFs as well as the specific Apple (OS X/iOS) software I use to manage my own workflow: Sente...
ANNE GALLOWAY. designer. ethnographer. archaeologist. ANTHROPOLOGY + DESIGN. My sense of anthropology is very materialist so I think it made a lot of sense for me to gravitate towards design. I ...
https://savageminds.org/2014/02/27/anthropology-design-anne-galloway/
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger, Rachel Carmen Ceasar. Chances are you know nothing about design. Me neither. So when I was introduced to designer Laura Forlano at the Society for Social Stud...
*North American Dialogue; with apologies in advance for acronym abundance Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Lindsay A. Bell I recently became the Associate Editor of North American Dialogue (NA...
https://savageminds.org/2013/12/13/are-you-there-internets-its-me-nad/
By Carole McGranahan with Kate Fischer, Rachel Fleming, Willi Lempert, and Marnie Thomson Wondering what to wear to the AAAs? We’ve got you covered. For women: throw a few scarves in your suitc...
https://savageminds.org/2013/11/20/conference-chic-or-how-to-dress-like-an-anthropologist/
UPDATE: There is now an official meeting app. Attending the AAA? Want to easily see all the schedule of panels you wish to attend in Google Calendar? Here’s mine (though it will likely be del...
https://savageminds.org/2013/10/27/create-an-aaa2013-google-calendar/
My digital voice recorder died a slow death this year. It was a Zoom H2. I bought it about 5 years ago and used it all last year for fieldwork in Baja. I think the salt air may have somethi...
https://savageminds.org/2013/09/26/tools-for-the-field-digital-audio-recorders/
Some of you may be aware of the productivity cult known as “Getting Things Done” (GTD). Although I find the full-blown GTD approach doesn’t really fit well with an academic lifestyle (what�...
https://savageminds.org/2013/09/24/getting-reading-done-with-sente-tools-we-use/
Very soon Sente will be releasing a major update to the PDF rendering engine on their iPad app. When they do, I will revisit Sente with an in-depth review of an app which has evolved a lot since ...
https://savageminds.org/2013/08/29/seven-essential-ipad-apps-for-researchers-tools-we-use/
If you look through the archives of Savage Minds you will find a lot of posts that are seemingly unformatted. Most of these are by Rex, who was an early fan of Markdown, a “a text-to-HTML conve...
https://savageminds.org/2013/02/15/living-in-a-plain-text-world-tools-we-use/
Last December I wrote a post, … Continue reading Reading Academic PDFs on the iPad (Tools We Use) →
https://savageminds.org/2012/07/28/reading-academic-pdfs-on-the-ipad-tools-we-use/
Over the course of a single day I engage in a number of different activities for which the word “reading” doesn’t seem to do justice: I scan my social networks, I check my email, I review s...
https://savageminds.org/2011/12/21/reading-fast-reading-slow-tools-we-use/
I’ve been trying to go paperless since graduate school, when I bought my first sheet-feed scanner. It was a slow, noisy, hulk of a machine which would jam half the time. But I’m not the kind ...
https://savageminds.org/2010/12/26/going-paperless-tools-we-use/
PDFs may be immoral, but we all live in sin. The free version of Sente for the iPad, the “Sente Viewer” is now available in the App Store. If you just want to sync PDFs to your iPad and anno...
https://savageminds.org/2010/10/02/tools-we-use-sente-viewer-for-ipad/