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Posted by basilides
Aug 6, 2011 at 02:14 PM
Google Docs! Well, who knows when Google will decide to dump this feature, plus I would have a lot of uploading, converting, slicing and dicing, etc. My point, to repeat—I have a folder crammed with mostly academic journal pdfs of various sizes (some quite large: 100 megs, for example) (pdf folder total so far: 48 gigs!). I need a robust, reliable program where I can quickly link thousands of these pdfs and view and search them rapidly via a stable browser that doesn’t crash. Is this asking too much?
Posted by basilides
Aug 6, 2011 at 02:17 PM
Mark, I’m using FireFox 5, and I am having the same UR freezing problems. It is probably the fault of these bloody browsers, and not UR. I am tired of fiddling around with them, though.
Posted by Carrot
Aug 6, 2011 at 02:43 PM
It sounds like you might want to use AtlasTI, qualitative data analyis software.
It could be used to code and co-relate hundreds of PDF, assign codes or notes to blocks of text, pictures, video etc.
It seems amazingly powerful. I’m just beginning to use it myself.
For a note-taker, I’m using TreeDBnotes, but I’m thinking of switching to something more serious like UltraRecall or MyBase.
With a combination of open- source Zotero, Ultra Recall, AtlasTI and the open source mind mapper FreePlane, I don’t really need any other tools to manage my data and references.
Try out FreePlane. Its quite remarkable.
Posted by Gorski
Aug 6, 2011 at 02:45 PM
Not to belabor this, but it doesn’t matter what browser you actually use, but whether the latest version of IE is installed on your computer because UR uses IE as its browser.
I’m with you on being tired of fiddling.
Posted by Achim
Aug 6, 2011 at 06:04 PM
Hi basilides,
I didn’t test it by myself, so I can’t say anything whether it’s stable, easy to use or has all features you demand, but it reads as if it might be interesting for you:
It’s called pdf-explorer and available via
http://www.rttsoftware.com/pdfe.html
Best regards
Achim