Advice on research software

Posted by Armin
Aug 18, 2013 at 02:27 PM

Wayne K wrote:
>There is a huge amount of source material available on this topic. I’d
>like to create a database that will allow me to filter and sort the
>material in different ways. Text will be broken up into short sections
>so they can be easily re-arranged. Each text segment will have the
>usual basic fields (tags) such as author, title, date, etc. Each text
>segment could be assigned to dozens of topic fields.

Sounds like the work I do. I collect huge amounts of text data from Web, Books, and Documents etc.
For years now, I mainly use Zoot Software for this kind of text analysis, filtering and sorting. Zoot includes anything, what I need (tags, built-in-fields, user-created fields, folders for smart filtering etc.). I did not find any better text database tool so far. By the way, Zoot can handle not only text, but also images.

22111 wrote:
>Btw, there is a German bibliographic software, Citavi,

I use Citavi, too. Citavi has been developed as a reference manager for organising academic research literature and keeping track of your quotations. But in the meantime, Citavi becomes also an idea manager and an outliner for organising your own ideas as well as your quotation pieces. Because of its structure as a reference manager, I use Citavi only for quotations and small info-snippets, not for huge text storage and organisation. For text filtering and sorting there is Zoot.
Just my experience
Best regards
Armin