Academic Workflow - Any Suggestion for an Application/s?

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Posted by gunars
Oct 23, 2019 at 02:10 AM

Alex wrote:
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.

Emacs can do everything, given enough tinkering and custom keystrokes :-) : https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png

Posted by Lothar Scholz
Oct 23, 2019 at 06:43 AM

>I stumbled across Citavi just last week. I was so impressed I bought
>Windows 10 and Parallels to try it on my Mac! I am not sure if it is the
>infrastructure they use on Windows, but the software runs much slower
>than other software in Windows.

They are using a different modern API that uses GPU vector rending for text.
Unfortunately GPU emulation is still very bad in Parallels and VMWare.
It might work better to run Citavi with Windows 7 on Parallels.

>I wish Apple themselves were developing tools that the
>academic/scholar/researcher could use.

Thats not their audience and they are the master of simplicty not functionality.
(And we shouldn’t forget that Apple was never good at developing Software).

Posted by Darren McDonald
Oct 23, 2019 at 08:24 AM

@J J Weimer

Thanks for the information about MarginNote vs. LiquidText. I think I will stick with just MarginNote then and see how it goes with my workflow. It is fortunate that there is a macOS and iPad version of this software available.

Let us all know how you go with Flexcil. I would like to read how to felt this appllcation is.

J J Weimer wrote:
@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 Darren McDonald
Oct 23, 2019 at 08:34 AM

@Marbux/Mark

I’m sorry to hear that you got brain damage from a heart attack. My damage came from a hemorrhage. Although strokes affect each person differently, it is great to find a person who knows where I am coming from. :)

I had never heard of NoteCase Pro. Thank you so much for introducing this software to me. I have already installed it and will give it a try. Thanks again!

I have already tried Zotero. Do you use Zotero in combination with NoteCase Pro? How do you use them?

Marbux wrote:
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 Darren McDonald
Oct 23, 2019 at 08:39 AM

@Alex & @gunar

This is the ultimate long-term dream for me, to be able to program to make my very own software. I have long to go before I get this point though. My programming background is just Basic on the Commodore Vic 20! (Am I showing my age? Lol!)

gunars wrote:

>
>Alex wrote:
>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.
> >Emacs can do everything, given enough tinkering and custom keystrokes
>:-) : https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png
>

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