As an academic, I read a lot of articles and write a few myself. I have been keeping my notes of articles in a NoteBook while using a citation manager (Endnote) at the same time. I have decided to merge the data from both into a single notebook.With NoteBook, I can move away from relying on a citation manager. Endnote’s developers are moving towards a data-management focus, I believe, and it’s rudimentary interface is not up for the task. It allows for only one image per citation, is not highly customizable, and is not good for long notes. I haven’t found it reliable on the Mac, either. While Endnote provides many, many citation styles, I essentially use only one, ever.Each page in the Article Notes notebook includes space for a full citation, content keywords, paragraphs of notes, an abstract, and any other information (links, images, or whatever NoteBook will allows). I created custom keywords for each type of cell (e.g. “citation,” “keywords,” “notes,” “abstract”) so that Super-Find can be restricted to types of information, such as looking for a specific term that I remember as having been in an abstract.It has a simple layout, and is meant to be natural and easy to use. I’m no NB expert, so customizing it further should be easy.What this means is that, when writing a paper, the citations are “manually” copied and pasted from the pages of the notebook into the document. People who like to use Endnote to browse through online citations or have dumped thousands of references into their Endnote libraries will not want to bother with this. This approach is more suitable for people who have a core library of articles in a well-defined area of study that needs managing for searching and citing.Article Notes TemplateThis notebook uses Georgia and Andale Mono fonts.—Darrell Rudmann, drudmann AT*SYMBOL gmail com