PIM for academic research and mind mapping (alternatives to Qiqqa)

Posted by milnehouse
Jan 4, 2013 at 03:04 PM

Hi, I’m a graduate student looking for PIM software. I’ve tried a few options (Mendeley, Qiqqa, EverNote, Zotero, Docear) but haven’t found exactly what I was looking for, so I thought I’d ask the experts.

Ideally, I’d like to find a tool (or suite of tools) that will let me manage this workflow:

capture information - in notes (handwritten/graphical would be a plus), pdfs, and bookmarks
organize information - by tags (with nesting), and mind maps (but this might be best handled by another tool)
cite parts of the database - predominantly in academic papers, but it would be really neat if I could publish some of my knowledge base online (I’m imagining a wordpress plugin that will pull part of an sql database to a blog).

Qiqqa does all of these things (except the blog posting), but it seems a little bit rough at times, so I wondered if there were other options.

Thanks for the advice!