Software for dissertation research & writing

Posted by Graham Rhind
Dec 6, 2006 at 02:55 PM

It has become clear to me during my exploration of these packages that intuitiveness is very much a property of the user rather than the software itself. I find WhizFolders completely intuitive, along with Ariadne, for example; whereas Zoot and ADM are purgatory to me. I think the user needs to find a package that not only does what they want it to do, but suits their way of thinking and working.

Graham

NW wrote:
> >The problem with many of these types of programs such as TreePad, and from a quick look
>at Whizfolders it may suffer from the same issues, is that the User Interface (menu
>system, toolbars and shortcut keys) is overly complex and not intuitive. I recently
>revisited some of these types of basic outliner programs and it seemed that
>ActionOutline would be my choice, if I was selecting one. The downside is that it isn’t
>as feature rich as some of the others.
> >Nigel