Docear - The Academic Literature Suite

Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 17, 2012 at 11:30 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Docear http://www.docear.org/ is a new tool for organising academic literature and
>writing, a successor to the Sciplore project
>http://www.sciplore.org/software/sciplore_mindmapping/

The video (http://www.docear.org/software/screenshots/) is quite interesting. I’ve downloaded it and played with it for a few minutes, but didn’t completely get it. It’s a beta and it seems that parts of the manual are still missing, and it wasn’t all that intuitive.

I’m a bit wary of the Swiss knife type approach to writing software. While I’m impressed with efforts like Citavi or Docear that try to capture the entire writing process, I’m reluctant to give up my freedom to assemble my own system of specialist software for the various stages of the process. I guess I worry that it somehow constrains my creativity.