Information Retrieval: Finding That Lost Article

Abstract

Keeping current with professional literature is an arduous task. To cope with the profusion of articles, surveys, studies, brochures, etc., many of us employ the “file and forget” method of reviewing documents. Unfortunately, this method doesn't help us when we need specific information on a particular topic, and we have a faint recollection that we've “read something on this very subject…what was it?…where is it?” This article describes an easy-to-use tracking system where you can continue to “file and forget” (at least for the moment) and then find that special article—and many others on the topic—much later by simply glancing at an index card.