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Outliners.com Message ID: 3523

Posted by daly_de_gagne
2005-07-21 20:00:44

As I am trying to rationalize my use of programs for different functions, I am increasingly leaning to using ndxCards as a writing environment. I learned today that one of the social work schools wants me to give a three hour lecture on therapy for adolescents on Aug. 3, so I decided to use ndxCards to generate both some ideas and an outline of the presentation.

Generally speaking I was very impressed with the way the software’s designers have implemented the index card metaphor, and the simple, minimalist outliner. The bibliographic side of the program is light weight at best (For example, while it allows for a book source, it does not give the user the choice of an edited book source (ie. a book that is an anthology of chapters by different writers. Edited books are, however, very common in the academic literature.).

A key advantage from a writing perspective is that ndxCards allows multiple open windows.

Daly

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