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Notion Personal Knowledge Base for Study or Research Notes

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Set up a simple structure for notes, sources and review.

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Help me set up a Notion knowledge base for [STUDY_OR_RESEARCH_AREA]. Types of material I collect: [MATERIAL_TYPES]. How I use notes (essays, exams, projects): [USE]. Time I can give each week: [TIME].

Propose at most three databases with properties and relations. Sources: type, author, year, link, status (to read, reading, done) and my rating. Notes: summary in my own words, key quotes with page numbers, source relation and topic relation. Topics: a linking database. Provide a note template and a reading-log view, and a weekly review: process the inbox, link notes to topics, and write one summary page.

Put quotations in quotation marks, record the source and page so I can cite correctly later, and write summaries in my own words to avoid accidental copying. Keep it simple enough to maintain for a semester, and say what to do if the system becomes too large. Mark feature names to check [VERIFY].

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