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Posted by jbaltsar
Jun 11, 2016 at 01:16 PM

 

Hi there,
I suggest you have a look at Daniel Lüdeckes Zettelkasten (http://zettelkasten.danielluedecke.de/). It’s made for collecting academic quotations, excerpts and literature citations, modelled after Luhmanns Zettelkasten method. It is somewhat idiosyncratic in it’s UI, but quite powerful in it’s filtering (source/author, keywords, ...) and output options (htms, rtf, latex, odt etc).

I looked for quite the same thing for a long time and tried dozens of programs. Relational DB systems are normally too clumsy, you have to worry about tables, indexes, queries etc. ConnectedText felt somewhat clumsy in it’s own way, especially for huge numbers of small snippets. CintaNotes was promising, but I would have to pay to get rich text. DataCrow is not a bad program for such cases, but it doesn’t have rich text. So while Zettelkasten may be somewhat unconventional, it comes very close to what you are looking for.

Judith