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Grad Students Represent: Note Taking / References on OS X
Scott Elias | Feb 16 2007
My new MacBook arrived last week. As I am beginning a doctoral program in the fall, I'm interested in knowing what others are using to (1) take notes on the Mac, and (2) start building a reference or bibliography for a dissertation. For note taking, I have Googled up quite a few, including:
And for references/bibliography building, I have heard about Endnote. Ultimately whatever I choose I want to be able to stick with for my entire program so I'm not worrying about compatibility issues, etc. Thanks in advance for your thoughts!! Scott 42 Comments
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 I heard Merlin talk about...Submitted by mdl on March 30, 2007 - 9:11am.
ScottE22;8203 wrote:
I heard Merlin talk about VooDoo Pad recently on MacBreak Weekly so I'll give it a look. Check out LaTeX (free and available for every platform). It's a markup language, so it has a pretty steep learning curve. But it is so much more powerful than Word--and it produces the most elegant output you've seen. And there are all sorts of programs that will do much of the technical stuff for you. See the list here. And, best of all, you enter everything in plain text--which prevents what is arguably the most crippling feature of Word, namely, the urge to fiddle with formatting before you're done drafting. A Word document has a deceptively finished look, even when it's just a sh*tty first draft. If you go the LaTeX route, you can also take advantage of the amazing BiBTeX system for citation management. See this free Mac program for an example of how this is implemented on the Mac. » POSTED IN:
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