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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8501962, member: 26430&quot;]<b><i>Note: Also sharing this answer in another thread...</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Keeping notes ... That is something I definitely do! Not sure how well these screenshots will come through, but if there&#039;s enough detail to see, notice the page and word counts...</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes in forums I&#039;ll refer to something as &quot;from my notes files&quot; or &quot;my provenance glossary&quot; or say that I&#039;m going to add something &quot;to my notes&quot;... Here&#039;s what I mean by that:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>ACDCN </b>= &quot;Ancient Coin Descriptions, Comments, and Notes&quot; File</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1503968[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I like to use the &quot;Headings&quot; function in MS Word because I can then navigate through the different levels headings on the left side of the screen. (&quot;BCE&quot; stands for &quot;Barbarians, Captives, and Enemies,&quot; a theme that fascinates me.)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>P&amp;P</b> = &quot;Provenances &amp; Publication&quot; File</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1503969[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The second file consists entirely of coins I already own. I have a spreadsheet to catalog my collection as well, but this lets me keep descriptions, photos, and relevant research notes in a way that I more easily look at.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those are the two most extensive files of coin notes (1,008 pages / &gt;355k words).</p><p><br /></p><p>The next file is a &quot;working file&quot;: My annotated 20th century (some late 19th) digitized auction catalogs and collections online. (Some have more annotation than those shown, some fewer details.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve only just begun trying to edit and post some of them online (starting with Alexandrian). I figured something like a combination of <a href="https://www.rnumis.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rnumis.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rnumis.com/</a> and the annotations on <a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/catalogs/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/catalogs/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/catalogs/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>PC = </b>&quot;Plate Checks: 20th Century Ancient Coin Sale Catalogs Online&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1503971[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Wow, just realized that&#039;s 1,100 pages of notes in the three files I use most. (I have many others, mostly considerably smaller. Need to break up the big ones again into smaller units.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe a bit obsessive... Clearly not only numismatic bibliomania and &quot;papyrophilia,&quot; but the related &quot;scriptophilia&quot; (or is it &quot;scribophilia&quot;?). I&#039;ve only recently started trying to figure out how I can start editing and using a website to make whatever&#039;s useful in there available to others...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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