Forum Posts Feed
RightNote version 4
< Next Topic | Back to topic list | Previous Topic >
Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Apr 11, 2017 at 03:55 AM
“MyInfo for scholarly books and articles (I find its clones and attribute columns especially helpful in organizing complex material)”
I wonder if you’ve compared MyInfo to Scrivener for that purpose? Or if anyone else has an opinion about their relative merits.
Posted by Hugh
Apr 11, 2017 at 10:49 AM
It is many years since I used MyInfo. However, it seems to me that it’s in an entirely different category from Scrivener’s. Of course, tools can be used for all kinds of purposes, but MyInfo, surely, is a PIM, a free-form personal organiser as it says on its website, whereas Scrivener is designed to be used primarily for “long-form” drafting of books, reports, dissertations and so forth - anything, in other words, which is likely to be longer than, say, 5,000 words and which could need re-shaping before publication.
Posted by WSP
Apr 11, 2017 at 11:08 AM
No, I haven’t used Scrivener, though I read about it with interest. My assessment (from a distance) would be that both Scrivener and MyInfo can perform two important functions—note-taking and writing drafts—but that they have different strengths. Scrivener, I gather, is an excellent writing tool that is also pretty good at gathering and organizing information. MyInfo is surprisingly efficient as a simple word-processor (I’ve used it in that way from time to time) but really shines as a note-taker.