Looking for PIM / Thesis Writing Software for the PC

Posted by Manfred
Oct 9, 2009 at 12:39 AM

I know I am late to the party, but as someone who has no only written Ph.D. thesis, but also directed quite a few, I have been wondering about the following:

“Meanwhile, ConnectedText’s Win98-like interface, like so much of the PC stuff, doesn’t really cut it aesthetically.”

What does aesthetics have to do with researching and writing? When I wrote my dissertation I really wanted an IBM Selectric, but not because it was available in different (attractive) colors, but because its correction system was better than anything else available.

In the same way, I suppose that function should dictate form in software tools. As someone who actually uses ConnectedText in his research, I also feel that I need to pint out that its interface is very Win98-like to begin with. (Nor does it need DOSBox to run circles around GrandView—- sorry, but I could not help myself.)

Manfred