And I thought it was about *all* equations, not just those in articles/papers… But seriously it reminds me of the practice of a) dating all your notes (which I do) and b) numbering all your notes (which I sadly don’t). The latter is the practice much lauded of Niklas Luhmann and his Zettelkasten. See Luhmanns Zettelkasten (English) and Wikipedia on Zettelkasten (Deutsch)
And I thought it was about *all* equations, not just those in articles/papers…
But seriously it reminds me of the practice of a) dating all your notes (which I do) and b) numbering all your notes (which I sadly don’t). The latter is the practice much lauded of Niklas Luhmann and his Zettelkasten. See Luhmanns Zettelkasten (English) and Wikipedia on Zettelkasten (Deutsch)