brothertom
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Software for organising research material
I'm probably going to regret asking this question because there is going to be hundreds of possible solutions and everyone will have their preference.
However, I am looking for a piece of software that will allow me to easily collate lots of different bits of information for a research project and then be able to search/retrieve based on text search, tags, notes etc. It needs to flexible, easy to use and to able to attached a reference or link to the original source.
The sort of things I'm looking to kept track of are:
- Website links including PDF links
- Various documents (on local hard disk, network etc)
- Photographs
- Telephone conversations (notes from)
- Email
- Snippits of information pulled from sources, perhaps with additional notes
The s/w can be PC and/or Mac based and the information store should be local and not based nfrastructures like Exchange or Sharepoint. I will look at web based apps/storage as long as the system can be run offline. iPhone sync would be nice.
What are the hot products for this sort of thing?
Thanks
BT
However, I am looking for a piece of software that will allow me to easily collate lots of different bits of information for a research project and then be able to search/retrieve based on text search, tags, notes etc. It needs to flexible, easy to use and to able to attached a reference or link to the original source.
The sort of things I'm looking to kept track of are:
- Website links including PDF links
- Various documents (on local hard disk, network etc)
- Photographs
- Telephone conversations (notes from)
- Snippits of information pulled from sources, perhaps with additional notes
The s/w can be PC and/or Mac based and the information store should be local and not based nfrastructures like Exchange or Sharepoint. I will look at web based apps/storage as long as the system can be run offline. iPhone sync would be nice.
What are the hot products for this sort of thing?
Thanks
BT
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I've been using One Note for a few days now and it does seem I have rather misjudged this product. It really is very good, as you said Kevin.
Many thanks for the suggestion and help links.
Thanks also to eoinosullivan for the Mac s/w - Will check this out also.
Many thanks for the suggestion and help links.
Thanks also to eoinosullivan for the Mac s/w - Will check this out also.
brothertom,
Please, just do me one favor, don't get addicted to one note! I have heard a few stories of people that "can not function without it"!!!
Good luck in your research!
Thank you for the grade,
Kevin
Please, just do me one favor, don't get addicted to one note! I have heard a few stories of people that "can not function without it"!!!
Good luck in your research!
Thank you for the grade,
Kevin
glad we could help!
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Just one footnote - for the Mac, Yojimbo has been recommneded.
http://www.barebones.com/products/Yojimbo/
Looks interesting for random information collection.
http://www.barebones.com/products/Yojimbo/
Looks interesting for random information collection.
ASKER
Thanks for the Onenote recommendation - for some reason I've been trying to avoid Onenote for years - perhaps I should take another look. The thing I don't like about it is its tied into Outlook and the MS file structrue - ideally I would like to have the data stored in a vendor independant (as much as one can) database.
Having said that, perhaps you can query the Onenote database externally?