I can empathize. Graduated undergrad in 1993 and was a 3x5 card type as well. Now, thirty years later, working on a doctorate and I've got Zotero and Obsidian and my last seminar paper I used....3 x 5 cards. It worked.
I highlighted in Zotero (and in a few books) then went back through the highlights and hand-wrote index cards for the ideas that still seemed relevant. I shuffled and sorted and wrote just like it was 1992 and it worked. (Having the Zotero plugin to do citations in Word is pretty magical.)
Then, when it was all over, I put a copy of the finished paper in my Obsidian....
I can empathize. Graduated undergrad in 1993 and was a 3x5 card type as well. Now, thirty years later, working on a doctorate and I've got Zotero and Obsidian and my last seminar paper I used....3 x 5 cards. It worked.
I highlighted in Zotero (and in a few books) then went back through the highlights and hand-wrote index cards for the ideas that still seemed relevant. I shuffled and sorted and wrote just like it was 1992 and it worked. (Having the Zotero plugin to do citations in Word is pretty magical.)
Then, when it was all over, I put a copy of the finished paper in my Obsidian....