Academic Workflow - Any Suggestion for an Application/s?

Posted by Marbux
Oct 23, 2019 at 12:06 AM

Darren, re your disability with short-term memory, I’ve walked that path as the result of a heart attack that did some brain damage.

You might check out Zotero. https://www.zotero.org/

It’s not a full-featured research assistant, but I found using the NoteCase Pro outliner of incredible assistance in working around my short-term memory loss. https://www.notecasepro.com/

The ability to quickly create lists and then move nodes around within hierarchical structures is super useful for the memory-impaired when developing plans. Plus it exports and imports and wide variety of file formats. Because it can be launched with a command line that instructs the program to execute a script that can export a result, it can be incorporated in a workflow with other apps. It’s available for MacOS, the other major operating systems, and Android, but not for iOS, if that matters.

It’s incredibly extensible, with the embedded Lua script interpreter, 374 methods exported to Lua, 3 embedded Lua programming libraries, and 35 scriptable event triggers. Plus scripts can be stored in plain text files, NoteCase Pro documents, AutoReplace templates, or plugins (NoteCase Pro documents with some mandatory metadata). I’ve written circa 600 scripts for it so far. I know of no other outliner that is so extensible. If you are of a bent to write scripts, you’d probably find the program very useful.