The starting point of any research would be the collection,classification and arrangement of the material. The researcherneeds to take down notes from the materials surveyed and then adopta method to classify and arrange them. The scientific method is theindex card system. Usually a scholar would be required to keep agood stock of cards. Cards are helpful for arrangement andpreservation, although they are expensive. They are easy to shiftand rearrange according to any scheme, chronological, geographical,biographical or topical. The procedure would be the same as adoptedin a library where there are as many cards as the books in theshelves. The scholar would have as may cards as there are relevantideas to put down on cards. Each single idea is treated as a singleunit, as if a separate book, and is never clubbed with anotheridea. A single document may hold several ideas, each of which isput down on a separate card. The mobile app developed by theundersigned specifically for the purpose of aiding the researchersin their preliminary operations of material collection in the formof notes and photographs, its arrangement and organization as wellas seamless transfer in electronic form to MS-Word (Open DocumentFormat). Making Notes: The mobile app, MyResearchNotes, presentsthe scholar with some definite and rigid procedure in taking downnotes as on the index cards except that the index card is nowelectronic and it is on the smartphone. The procedure is fixed, thesame details needs to be filled upon every card without fail. Everycard contains: 1) A heading to the information furnished in thecard 2) A precise indication of the date of the document - in casethe exact date is not known at least the approximate date, ormonth, or year 3) The page or folio number of the document fromwhich the information is collected. 4) At the bottom of the cardthe fullest reference about the document including the name of theauthor, the title of the work, the number of the volume, the numberof the page and the year of publication. Saved notes can be editedat a later date. Swiping left or right allows one to navigate tothe previous or next note. In addition to the textual contentphotographic content can also be added to a note. Photographs canbe taken when necessary from the mobile app itself. Any number ofphotographs can be attached to a single note. Classifying andArranging: Four generic types of classifications are possiblenamely chronological, geographical, topical or biographicaldepending on date, place, species or form. In addition any numberof user defined classification tags can be appended to the noteallowing for unlimited ways of sorting and arranging the notes.List of notes comes up at beginning. The title of the note isfollowed by sorting tags defined by the user. Tapping on the tagswill sort the list according to the tag selected. The filtering andsorting options are available to filter by tags given by the user,or by the author of the source document, or by the year ofpublication. The notes saved on the mobile phone can be exported toMS-Word (Open Document Format). A file containing all the notes ason date will be saved in the Open Document Format (.docx) which canbe opened in MS-Word or any other popular word processing system.There is also the option to save the file onto Google drive.Importing from SD card or the internal storage option is availablefor use in case of application re-installation or upgrade and whenthe data needs to be restored. Conclusion The mobile appMyResearchNotes greatly enhances the productivity of theresearcher. It helps to organize material in a scientific way.Themobile app will work even when there is no phone (Network)connectivity as in case of remote excavation locations or basementarchives, making it an invaluable tool in streamlining thepreliminary operations for undertaking research. Gautam HegdeBangalore, India

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