Software for dissertation research & writing

Posted by NW
Dec 4, 2006 at 01:58 PM

Hugh & Derek,

Thanks for the replies.

ndxCards - this software has a “Windows 3.1” feel about it. Functionality is OK, but when it draws up the cards on my monitor it seems to resize them a few times before it ‘settles down’ and even though it happens quickly, I find it really annoying.

Notabene - One look at the price list was enough to stop further investigations.

IdeaMason - The current version is ‘useable’, but it looks like the additional features & UI chnages in the next version due this month would be necessary to convince to think seriously about it. I check it out out again when the new version becomes available.

With new versions of OneNote & PersonalBrain due in the new year, it seems like my 2007 CRIMP budget is under pressure already! So IdeaMason will have to convince me that it can really make life alot easier for me, to make me fork out the money for it. I have managed to complete a couple of smaller projects for my MSc without it, which maybe says my search is another symptom of CRIMP, rather than an actual requirement for another piece of software!

Derek Cornish wrote:
>Nigel,
> >Given the stage you are at, I’d probably
>plump for IdeaMason, as much to avoid the procrastinating allure of CRIMP as anything
>else…
> >Derek