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Taking stock: favourite software tools of 2012
Legend: Software I started using in 2012 in bold. Software I’ve been using for many years (old faithfuls) in italics. Used daily: ConnectedText Natara Bonsai Outline 4D NoteTab VUE Freeplane EndNote...
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Academic writing workflow with ConnectedText, Freeplane, and Outline 4D
A large part of the academic writing process has to do with taking notes, collecting quotes, analysing and evaluating them, coming up with your own interpretation, then developing an outline, and...
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Outline 4D for drafting and reverse outlining
In my previous post I mentioned that Outline 4D (formerly known as StoryView) has become an integral part of my academic writing workflow, as my tool of choice for writing the first draft. O4D may...
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Mindsystems Amode V3 under development
I was glad to find out yesterday that Mindsystems has decided to develop a new version of Amode. I’ve written about Amode V2 before, explaining why I like it as a project management solution. I can...
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Academic writing process and associated tools
The main stages of my academic writing process: Note-taking (empirical data collection or taking reading notes); Analysis and evaluation, resulting in an abstracted list of observations; a selection of...
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Workflows and toolchains
Apparently there is a word for the system that I’ve been constructing out of various software and hardware: it’s called a “toolchain.” Check out the use of toolchains in ethnography here and here. I’m...
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Multiple topic windows in ConnectedText 6
Just heard it through the grapevine that the forthcoming version 6 of ConnectedText will be able to have an unlimited number of view-only windows open.This is great news, as up to now the main...
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Latest entrants: The Guide, FocusWriter, and WizMouse
The most recent additions to my Favourites list are The Guide, FocusWriter, and WizMouse (all FREE). The Guide is a lightweight, fast, and easy-to-use dual-pane notes organiser and outliner. I needed...
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WizMouse and ConnectedText
Speaking of WizMouse, I have just come across this review of it by Mark Fuss, who does a good job of explaining what it does. In the course of the review Mark also mentions ConnectedText, as an example...
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Kindle is not for me
Surely I must count as some sort of a dinosaur, as it was only today that I’d purchased – and then promptly returned – my very first Kindle e-book. I managed to avoid Kindle up until now by being able...
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Review of ConnectedText
Reblogged from I used to be undecided, but now I'm not so sure.: This note taking program stores its notes in a database, therefore there is no need to save the file, changes are saved in the database...
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Using colour in outlining
I was glad to see that the latest version (3.6.3b) of Noteliner now supports “unlimited colors for lists, note highlighting and sections of text.” For me colour has always been an important factor in...
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ConnectedText v. 6 is out
A new version of ConnectedText (the personal or desktop wiki that I use as my main notes database and qualitative data analysis tool) was released last week. The complete list of new features,...
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Going gung-ho with Gingko, the horizontal outlining app
I’ve tried a wide range of outlining and writing tools for Windows over the last few years, in preparation for the big task of writing up my doctoral thesis, so I managed to surprise even myself when...
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Journalising with ConnectedText
Manfred Kuehn on how he uses ConnectedText for keeping a journal. It probably will make the most sense to those who are already ConnectedText users.
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From Greenshot to Screenshot Captor
My screenshot-taking needs are usually not very complex, which is why I had been a happy user of the easy-to-use Greenshot (free and open source). However, recently I ran into a problem where another...
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Gingko app reviewed in The Chronicle
Natalie Houston, associate professor of English at the University of Houston, discusses Gingko app on the ProfHacker blog at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Write in a New Way with Gingko I’ve been...
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PhraseExpander’s new algorithm
I’ve been using the text expansion software PhraseExpander Pro for about three weeks now on a continual basis, as I carry on writing up my PhD thesis. I’m also testing it to fulfil my promise to write...
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PCWorld’s review of ConnectedText 6
ConnectedText 6 review: Personal wiki adds long-requested features – by Ian Harac Offline personal wiki tool ConnectedText is ideal for college students, researchers, writers, and anyone else who needs...
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Taking reading notes with Freeplane
For some time now I’ve been using Freeplane as my reading-note capturing application. I would be reading a book at my desk, in front of my computer monitor(s), and use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to...
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