MemoryKeeper

Memory Keeper enables the user to capture sources and generate source citations, capture evidence from each source, and generate research assertions. Use the assertions to generate conclusions. In the end, you are presenting to the reader conclusions with sound assertions based on evidence from a collection of sources. Users skipping the historical method and drawing conclusions without capturing evidence and assertions are producing a weak narrative.

Capture and cross-reference your research and conclusions with your research papers and e-books.

Getting Started

Get started here.

Uses

Memory Keeper is a Wiki, currently an experimental project in TiddlyWiki, providing a tool to capture research information and conclusions. Memory Keeper is not software you install. Rather, being built into TiddlyWiki, you can use a browser to view and edit your data.

This means there are numerous platforms you can use.

Memory Keeper was designed for genealogical research. However, it is ideal for various types of research.

Memory Keeper is not currently available in a TiddlyWiki plugin. Rather, Memory Keeper is supplied as a complete solution that requires various plugins and themes (provided in the solution).

Features

• capture and track projects and tasks.

  • associate people, events, places, sources, etc to any task.

• capture research journal entries - associate each entry to people, events, etc.

• capture sources

  • sources can be associated with people, events, places
  • track which sources are new (default), under current review and complete.

• identify various evidence in each source

• create assertion entries to capture written statements and summaries of conclusions based on the evidence

• generate conclusion entries

  • people
  • events
  • places

• add supporting information

  • notes
  • media
    • photographs
    • photo essays (slideshows)
    • video
    • audio
  • add and track tribes
  • quotes
  • definitions
  • occupations
  • objects
  • vehicles (e.g. ships, cars)

• generate charts

• capture resources

  • research aids
  • literature
  • search databases

• export ancestors of a specific individual (0.0.06)

  • for import into another instance of Memory Keeper
  • includes people, events, places, sources and notes.

• write a research paper, books.

  • using built-in StyleSheets or add your own custom StyleSheets for format an e-book.
  • add citation markers to your paper / book.
  • auto generate end notes and bibilography.
  • add various book elements (example: book covers, introduction)
  • associate in your writing, to people, events and places. In this way, when you review a person, event or place you can see where in your writing you referenced that person, event or place.
  • export book chapters, StyleSheets so they can be imported into an e-pub file.