Qiqqa and Devonthink

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Posted by maties
Jun 17, 2011 at 01:41 PM

Qiqqa .... windows equivalent to devonthink ???

Feature highlights:

PDF Annotations
Annotations Report
Automatic OCR of everything
Visually map links between documents and mindmapping

autotags
Qiqqa learns what your documents are about, revealing patterns and giving you hints on topics you should be researching
Once you’ve added sufficient documents to your Library, Qiqqa will try to work out the key concepts in your documents.
These are called AutoTags, and they appear in your AutoTags tree on the left of your Library.
As you add more documents, the results may change,to reflect the new contents
AutoTags can alert you to concepts that are shared amongst your documents, that you weren’t aware of. This can help you find patterns, or guide you towards important topics

Document Intelligence integrated
Qiqqa analyzes your document and displays a Term Cloud of the most important terms within it. Save time by telling at a glance what a new paper is all about, and if it’s worth reading.

PDF Annotations
Annotations Report
Text Highlighting
Comments
Tags
Hierarchical Tags
PDF text search
Built-in full text indexed search
Automatic OCR of images
Web Library
Syncing across multiple machines
Access library from iPhone, Android
Search PubMed
Search Google Scholar
BibTeX and LaTeX support
Microsoft? Word? 2007 and 2010 support
Also by these authors
Keyword cloud
AutoTags
Visually map links between documents
Brainstorming - mindmapping
Integrated web browser
Free of charge .... yes free ....

What do you think ?

Posted by Hugh
Jun 17, 2011 at 02:07 PM

Qiqqa sounds interesting. “Concordance-matching”, as I believe it’s called, is a particularly useful attribute when you have large amounts of information to search, classify or tag.

Besides concordance-matching, the other valuable attribute of Devonthink is its ability to consume gigabytes of data without choking. Can Qiqqa do that?

(I’ve just upgraded from DT Pro 1.x to Pro Office 2.1. I’m still at the stage of playing with it, but it’s already clear that it’s going to be a real asset—more useful than I’d anticipated.)

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 17, 2011 at 02:39 PM

Well, for PDFs maybe. But DevonThink handles virtually any file, where Qiqqa only appears to handle PDFs. Good for scholars, maybe less useful for the rest of us.

Steve

Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 17, 2011 at 03:16 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
> Good for scholars, maybe less useful for the rest of
>us.
> >Steve

Good for scholars perhaps if you’re starting out with data collection. But I already had about 1500 journal articles in PDF when I tried Quiqqa and it seemed to me like an awful lot of manual correction to do still to switch from EndNote to Quiqqa. It just didn’t seem worth the trouble. But otherwise the concept is interesting.

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