Software for dissertation research & writing

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 5, 2006 at 06:46 PM

I’ve owned a license for WhizFolders for several years. It is an attractive program in many ways, but I find all the windows that open as I work through a project very annoying. So it is interesting to hear that you’ve written a 1000-page book with WF. Perhaps I need to try it once again.

Steve Z.

Graham Rhind wrote:
>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.
>>