Dr Andus
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Docear - The Academic Literature Suite
4/17/2012
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Docear http://www.docear.org/ is a new tool for organising academic literature and
>writing, a successor to the Sciplore project
>http://www.sciplore.org/software/sciplo...
Robert Caro's outliner
4/17/2012
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Dr Andus wrote:
>>Basically instead of physically moving
>>your body in front of your
>cork board, you are moving the cork board horizontally and
>>vertically across yo...
Robert Caro's outliner
4/17/2012
And there is Manfred's article on the CT website, which also talks about Luhmann's Zettelkasten:
http://www.connectedtext.com/manfred.php
Robert Caro's outliner
4/17/2012
Slartibartfarst,
check out this post by Manfred where he compares the two:
http://takingnotenow.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/faithful-electronic-version-of-luhmanns.html
most facile outliner
4/16/2012
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>- Most importantly, even in
>the "good old days" many people did not "get" Brainstorm. A search of the forum for
>namesakes will find mostly posts by my good self. I hav...
Robert Caro's outliner
4/16/2012
Caro's system sounds very much like Luhmann's Zettelkasten. He would probably like ConnectedText:
http://takingnotenow.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/luhmanns-zettelkasten.html
Robert Caro's outliner
4/15/2012
Gary Carson wrote:
>As for this corkboard outlining method, I don't
>think it can ever be replicated on a computer. Even the biggest flat-panel monitors
>are too small.
Even if you have a massiv...
Robert Caro's outliner
4/15/2012
Gary Carson wrote:
>I also think the old-fashioned hard copy corkboard outlining
>method he's using here is a million times more efficient than ANYTHING you'll ever get
>from ANY program on ANY comp...
Robert Caro's outliner
4/15/2012
But otherwise Caro's system reminds me of ConnectedText. There are individual notes, there are filing cabinets with the notes, there are notebooks that contain the index, there is an edit mode (the ha...
Robert Caro's outliner
4/15/2012
Yes, this sort of large scale visualisation is one area where computer programmes are at a disadvantage. I wonder if something similar could be achieved in the near future using projectors? I suppose ...
Scrivener for Windows stability
4/13/2012
I have heard of some stories of data loss on various forums (including Scrivener's) and I'm a bit spooked. I have used Scrivener for Windows (I have version 1.0.3) for several months on a daily basis ...
CRIMPing makes it big time
4/13/2012
Congrats! Your visitor stats must be going through the roof! :)
Lucas wrote:
>Dr Andus,
>
>Thanks for describing your setup. The distinction between creating the
>meat and creating the outline is useful. I actually find it easiest to generate text
>hierarchicall...
Giveaway of the Day - AllMyNotes Organizer Deluxe 2.60
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/allmynotes-organizer260/
I didn't get excited about the screenshots either, but in case anyone else is interest...
Help With Connected Text
4/11/2012
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Here's a concrete example that just occurred to me (by which
>I'm not implying that it hasn't occurred to many others before):
>
>I've got a project
>(CT-speak for database) fo...
Help With Connected Text
4/10/2012
And just an anecdote to back up my point. A few days ago I emailed a friend of mine (another humanities-type person and a Scrivener user) the link to CT's home page, recommending it and saying how I s...
Help With Connected Text
4/10/2012
Dr Andus wrote:
>Steve,
>If I were CT's developer, I'd hire you to
>write 10 basic tutorials for me like your two blog posts and I'd link them from the CT
>homepage :)
By which I meant to say, yo...
Help With Connected Text
4/10/2012
Steve,
thanks for Manfred's link. I've come across it in the past but after reading your post it suddenly makes more sense. I guess the trouble with getting my head around Attributes is that it is su...
Help With Connected Text
4/9/2012
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>FWIW, I just put together a blog posting that, I hope, explains a little better the
>approach to building this simple quotation database in ConnectedText. You can find
>the pos...
Help With Connected Text
4/6/2012
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Essentially what I want to do is
>to have authors and info related to them, and then have quotes from my various authors
>arranged as to themes - but am unsure how to set up th...
Retrospective outlining
4/4/2012
>Eduardo Mauro wrote:
>>If you have any suggestion of how we can
>>improve CT regarding
>this, let me know.
>
>Hi Eduardo,
>I don't know how easy it is to do technically but if the
>collapsed headi...
Help With Connected Text
4/2/2012
If you haven't already done so, it might also be a good idea to sign up for the ConnectedText forum and just browse through the past posts and monitor the new ones as they come in. One can learn a lot...
Retrospective outlining
4/1/2012
Eduardo Mauro wrote:
>If you have any suggestion of how we can
>improve CT regarding this, let me know.
Hi Eduardo,
I don't know how easy it is to do technically but if the collapsed headings would ...
Retrospective outlining
4/1/2012
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>This is an interesting topic. It relates to a feeling I've long had about outliners,
>namely that the ones which of restrict your outline to individual blocks of text are
>not ...
Retrospective outlining
3/31/2012
Alexander/Steve,
thanks for the suggestions. I can see that once we move to these more advanced aspects of outlining, the software that can do them are either the ones that take quite a bit of effort...