The document summarizes the content of a workshop for first-year Ph.D. students on managing information. The workshop covers organizing literature, deciding what papers to read, and organizing one's knowledge. It discusses information issues, performing literature searches, critically evaluating search results, actively reading papers through skimming and tagging, and storing information. The session content includes managing found and published information as well as managing self-generated information through organizing, storing, retrieving, and synthesizing it.