<p>I use <a href="http://www.mendeley.com/" rel="nofollow">Mendeley</a>, which allows you to tag your papers, find them by topic, author, export bibtex files, and so on.</p>

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Anthony Labarre
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/1574/do-you-use-any-article-organizers">Do you use any article organizers? </a>  </p>
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<p>[[ This is intended as a wiki question ]]</p>

<p>I have tons of papers on the subject I'm studying.  When you get them from ACM or someone's website, they're usually called something like <code>kautz-a1.pdf</code> or, my favorite, <code>paper.pdf</code>.  What I've done is organize them by:</p>

<pre><code>year - first author's last name - paper title.pdf
</code></pre>

<p>So for example, in /papers:</p>

<pre><code>2007 - Wang - PRT for RT indirect lighting using spectral mesh basis.pdf
</code></pre>

<p>This seems to work, and I can usually find what I'm looking for.  I mirrored this folder on DropBox, so I can pull down the collection if I happen to be working on another computer than my main.</p>

<p>How do other people store them?</p>

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How do you organize your papers?
bobobobo
# How do you organize your papers?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2010-12-03)

Possible Duplicate:
Do you use any article organizers?  

[[ This is intended as a wiki question ]]
I have tons of papers on the subject I'm studying.  When you get them from ACM or someone's website, they're usually called something like kautz-a1.pdf or, my favorite, paper.pdf.  What I've done is organize them by:
year - first author's last name - paper title.pdf

So for example, in /papers:
2007 - Wang - PRT for RT indirect lighting using spectral mesh basis.pdf

This seems to work, and I can usually find what I'm looking for.  I mirrored this folder on DropBox, so I can pull down the collection if I happen to be working on another computer than my main.
How do other people store them?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2010-12-03. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

I use [Mendeley](http://www.mendeley.com/), which allows you to tag your papers, find them by topic, author, export bibtex files, and so on.


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