Re: Request MSWin outliners with I,A,1,a etc structure?

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Posted by graham.smith
2005-02-23 12:39:07

Daly,

Your onto a loser here Daly, for I have just bought NB7 as well, I imagine, on exactly the same special deal !!

I have however lurked in the NB forum for 15 months and played with the 60 day demos of both version 6 and 7 of NB. I also await version 8 which will be released any day now.

I bought it for the Word Processor, which has several small but desirable tools that make it more writer friendly than Word or WordPerfect. I am not sure how I am going to use Orbis or Ibidem.

I have owned and used Papyrus, Biblioscape, Citation and Library Master, and Ibidem is “generally” as powerful as any of these, in terms of basic bibliographic features. Several NB users also use Library Master and it seems that for complex needs it is more versatile. Biblioscape is a more complex tool that attempts to be a broader information management tool.

At the moment I plan to continue to use Library Master as a catch all bibliographic tool, and move references into Ibidem as they are used for specific papers or reports. I will still be writing some things in Wordperfect or Word, and Ibidem only works in NB.

Orbis only indexes NB files so is limited as a general purpose tool. having said that, the advice from NB users is to copy everything into NB and then allow Orbis to index it. Again, possibly useful within NB but I am not convinced that it has a lot of value as a general purpose database.

As with Ibidem, I was thinking about using Orbis as a holding place for text and links to information directly related to the paper or report that I am writing in NB. Continuing to use Zoot as my repository for all my randomly collected data that might be useful one day and Library Master for all my bibliographic data.

If you can get away with doing everything in NB, then Ibidem and Orbis give a powerful and integrated tool set

However, I have been so busy since getting NB, I haven’t actually done anything with it at all :-(

Not sure if that helps much, for as always it depends on what you want to do.

Graham

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