MyInfo 6 Just Released

Posted by Mitchell Kastner
Apr 13, 2011 at 07:43 PM

WSP wrote:
> >Mitchell Kastner wrote:
>>I have downloaded the trial today of v. 6 of the software
>and it is utterly unuseable for
>>doing academic research in which the end product is a
>journal article. There is simply
>>no way to relate a citation to a note—-called a
>“document”—-I guess you could insert
>>the citation into the note itself but that
>would not enable you to write about the cited
>>article as a whole in one section of your
>article. To do this, you need a relational
>>database which allows you to create
>topics and their descendants in a tree-like
>>structure. Brilliant is the product
>that fits the bill although I am still working on
>>mastering export of selected
>topics to MSWord. http://www.brilliantdatabase.com
> >Well, we all find our own solutions
>to these problems, and I’m glad you’ve discovered something that works well for you.
>On the other hand, I use MyInfo every day for creating scholarly articles and books; I
>suppose it just fits my way of working.
> >I should add that I’m pleased with version 6:
>it brings us at last a couple of features that have been much requested on the MyInfo
>forum—hoisting and the ability to have several notes open on the screen
>simultaneously.
> >

How do you handle citations with the program?
How is this program any different than Writing Outliner which is an MS Word add-in?

Sometimes the same snippet of research is relevant to more than just one topic. With a relational database that utilizes a tree-structure it is simple to put the same record in multiple folders. If I sounded harsh, you are hearing my frustration in not finding an outline tool built on a relational database. I cannot imagine why MS Access does not have that functionality. Btw: Brilliant does not have QBE (or if it does I have not found it) and I just have not had the time to write queries.