connotea

one of the nuisances in migrating to a different computer is the transfer of data. one way to solve for this is to store data on the internet.

since long time ago i stopped to download new papers to my local disk, but rather bookmarked the interesting papers listed on the archive server. although transferring bookmark list is not a big deal, recently i switched to using connotea to keep my bookmarks for papers online. as this service is provided by nature publication company, i suppose it won't easily go away; furthermore, the archive server conveniently provides a way to bookmark papers with connotea.

if the doi of a paper is known, it can also be added to connotea. it seems that papers listed on ads can be easily bookmarked by connotea.

i think the best feature of connotea (and other online bookmark systems) is to be able to label papers by various tags. a paper usually doesn't belong to one single category, and so it's sometimes difficult to decide which folder to put it in.