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Posted by Darren McDonald
Oct 22, 2019 at 03:58 PM
Hello Mark,
+1 on Citavi. It’s an extremely useful piece of software. I found it
>when working on my Ph.D and continue to use it as a knowledge management
>tool.
I would like to try Citavi out properly. It could be what I am looking for! :)
>Though off-topic for the site but perhaps pertinent to your use-case,
>the Chromium-based Edge browser with its built-in read text aloud may be
>of use to read back documents. I’ve also used VoiceComputer (and
>Knowbrainer) with Dragon Professional to navigate on my computer and
>dictate.
>
Thank you so much for this information. I find that I get tired very quickly and the time I can use to concentrate on reading before my eyes glaze over the page is rather limited. So having text read to me would be great! I will look into whether this can be done with Japanese text too.
Thanks so much for your help Mark. :)
Posted by J J Weimer
Oct 22, 2019 at 05:44 PM
Wow!
Thank you. This is a good reason to re-install Parallels on my MBP.
Daly de Gagne wrote:
Although only available in the Windows world, Citavi is probably the
>best ref manager, pdf reader, and knowledge manager on the market. Its
>ability to manage knowledge is unique, and could mimic effectively the
>research journal, while allowing information to be organized usefully.
>There is also a built-in task manager which allows organization of the
>many details and tasks implicit in academic work.
>
>Even if someone never ends up using Citavi, its website offers
>Information which may be useful.
>
>www.citavi.com
>
>Nothing else I have seen comes close to Citavi.
>
>Daly
Posted by J J Weimer
Oct 22, 2019 at 06:00 PM
@Darren McDonald
To reference some of your questions/concerns:
* I would not consider MarginNote good enough to use outside its own eco-system. It does not export anything but flattened PDFs. It does not do any cloud sync other than iCloud (and that is often unreliable). I have been able to kludge a work-flow to transfer tagged notes from Bookends to MarginNote on the iPad.
* I gave up on LiquidText when I found that it munged the import of annotations from PDFExpert. At least MarginNote imported properly. If I am going to be limited to using a type of “side-sheet” note system, I also found the tagging feature of MarginNote to be important in its own right.
* Flexcil looks like a good app to use to cull notes from documents. It seems that I have yet another app to try.
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.
Posted by Alex
Oct 23, 2019 at 01:01 AM
Marbux wrote:
>I know of no other outliner that is so extensible.
Org-mode. Built on Emacs, which means if you love tinkering, configuring and customizing to fit your specific needs - you can don that forever.