
retaining folder names as 'tags' for duplicate documents
file management | Literature Reviews | tools | automation | Bibliography | Categories | Classification | Data Scraping | scraping | software | trial and error | TroubleshootingI have a large PDF collection - and several applications that claim to help me 'manage' my PDFs.
Some are focused on being note-taking tools; some see judicious selection from your PDF collection as research fodder for the writing process (Scrivener, Selenium); others are interested in organizing and mobilizing reference metadata for citation while writing papers (Reference Manager, RefWorks, EndNote); others have only added file management to robust citation management (Sente, EndNote) or vice-versa (Zotero).
And then there's Papers. Hands down the best document + metadata search, retrieval & article management app for the mac.

quick search on 'how to do a literature review'
Information Science | Psychology | Literature Reviews | Methodologysearched
"how to conduct a literature review"
Found a few inaccessible articles/books.
Google books has the first few pages of a Professional Psychologists' Handbook. Chapter 5...

eye movement while reading text and imagery
Cognitive Science | Psychology | Experiments | Literature Reviews | Eye Movement | Reading | SaccadeWhile starting a quick&dirty search on "gist" I found a couple of articles that pulled me towards Brian's overarching request: that I become familiar with some of the psychology literature germane to the areas we work in.
Starting with the article:
The Construction of Meaning from Text: possible effects of different reading strategies
I refined the search to:
The Construction of Meaning from Text reading strategies
I then returned to the 'gist' search.
Next I found another diverging article:
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