Software for dissertation research & writing

Posted by Graham Rhind
Dec 5, 2006 at 03:52 PM

For writing (not academic research) I use WhizFolders (http://www.whizfolders.com). It has a fairly standard tree-based structure but with wiki-type linkages within topics and to files external to it. It suffers from limited editting power (based on WordPad with some improvements), but it will output trees in a number of formats as a completed manuscript. Also, it’s author has been extremely supportive in making improvements to the package as requested by the users (if other packages were as responsive I wouldn’t have to adopt a new one every couple of months ....).

I have used it to write and publish a book of over 1000 pages, and also use it for all my software manuals.

Graham Rhind

Softwareguru wrote:

>I can’t imagine
>how it would work to use ADM, Ultra Recall or any other Outliner/PIM application for
>serious academic research and/or writing because these tools are not designed for
>that purpose.
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