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General Software Discussion / Re: Writing related programs - Review (?)
« Last post by wraith808 on April 28, 2018, 07:52 PM »I've committed to doing some, as I'm the reason most of those are there.Congratulations on getting so many-wraith808 (April 28, 2018, 01:22 PM)
My interest is very much in an overall system and how each program can fit into that, so mini reviews of individual apps would not work for me. Not really a traditional comparative, concluding one is better than another either.
My interest is in a variety of writing - academic papers and books, reports, 'journalism', non-fiction as well as fiction. My observation over the years is that most students and researchers have massively suboptimal methods of managing their information, planning and structuring; OK for a single piece of work but incredibly inefficient if there's a series.
iirc I wrote a paper on the issue 10 or 20 years ago. To mostly little effect. I suspect pantsers proliferate in all fields, but it's harder to make it work with non-fiction. And some just prefer paper.-Dormouse (April 28, 2018, 02:53 PM)
There was a piece of software that is not supported anymore, but they unlocked it before they faded- it was specifically for academics, but worked well enough for me. I'll have to try to find it.
UPDATE: That was fast, just found it - IdeaMason.
http://www.bitsdujou...m/software/ideamason
http://download.cnet...2056_4-10398292.html
https://ideamason.wordpress.com/about/
That sounds like it would work for you. I'd suggest you give it a try.
It's built on the idea that a paper is composed of several different things collected, sort of like what you said. Ideas, quotes, citations, abstracts, summaries, sources- you store them and categorize them, and you can use them in different fashions to make a composition out of the parts- complete with cites. It was way more than I needed, but did work for me for writing also.
