On Dec 29, 1:24 pm, JayF <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've used a number of different tools for notes and bibliography (Sente, > > Tinderbox, Delphi, Personal Brain, Zoot, etc., etc.) and still am using > > Sente for biblio. I used Zotero for a while, too.
I really like the lateral linking in Personal Brain, but a license is pricey. There's a lot to like about Sente, but I find it hard to get it to match up a citation and a pdf when they are not entered at the same time. Papers (mekentosj.com) works better for me than Sente and is half the price. Never quite warmed up to Zotero, but probably because I mostly use Safari. But I still wind up primarily using the free Journler, mostly because I can save pdfs to a Journler drop folder and have them imported immediately (if the app is running) or later the next time I open it. I can just surf along in a browser as normal and save items whenever I come across them. "Research" for me is broader than just academic databases. Google Scholar's new feature to show links directly to your campus library database also makes this approach much easier. Also a big fan of the free Skim for annotating pdfs. (Yes, I'm on a Mac). Just tried the FileDropPlugin from tiddlytools.com and think it may move me to using TW for collecting and annotating. I need to come up with a workflow that is as painless as Journler. I can do this manually by saving files to a TW "drop folder" and then go back later and manually drop those files into TW, but that requires me to remember to do it. Maybe there's a TW plugin (or maybe there could be) that monitors a particular folder and automatically imports any new files using the FileDropPlugin (or similar). I can also imagine pretty easily creating an APA 6th bib formatting tool using slices and transclusion. But for large numbers of references, I'm sure Sente, Papers, and others would be more robust. > I also wanted to be able to work on different computers (home, > netbook, office). To do this in TW, I save my TW (and supporting > graphics files) in a dropbox (mydropbox.com) that automatically syncs > to a server and my other machines. I'm also a fan of Dropbox, but I use it a bit differently. I don't have a second computer, but I do have a second virtual machine on my Macbook, and Dropbox makes it easier to move files between OS X and XP. I also use the Dropbox folder for critical docs I want to be sure are backed up in the cloud without me ever thinking about it (extra insurance on top of my full server backup at home). And I also use it for quickly sharing files across the web with others, as I have done here. I'm not at the dissertation stage yet. Still completing my residency project and looking forward to comps in the fall, but I'll be eager to hear any other suggestions for organizing scholarly research. TW definitely has a lot of potential here. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
