which solution do you suggest?

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 7, 2012 at 11:33 PM

I think some of your criteria are almost mutually exclusive, especially being able to do all that stuff and “be able to handle efficiently a large amount of data.”

Three programs that would tick a lot of the boxes on your list are Mindsystems Amode, WhizFolders, and NVivo. However, once you want to keep everything in one place and especially in one file, you’ll start facing issues like increasing processing times and computing resource requirements (which negate all the other advantages) and the possibility of corrupting files.

I’d suggest selecting your most important core requirements and then finding a single software for those, while using additional software to deal with the less important aspects. E.g. Amode does have a built-in concept mapping etc. tool but I never bother using it because it’s quicker and easier to do in VUE.

Regarding wikis (which is one solution to be able to deal with a huge amount of data while avoiding putting everything into a single file), you don’t have to use a collaborative wiki, there are plenty of so-called personal or desktop wikis out there: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DesktopWiki