I've been trialing Citavi. With Qiqqa, it's been good to have tags related to an entire document, but then I have to browse the paper to find exactly what I was thinking about, or don't highlight something that isn't specifically relevant to my current thought process. Regardless, there is still a good amount of searching and head scratching. "shoot, which article did I see that thought in, which related to this other concept I wasn't thinking about at the time", or "this article is so long! Where is that section I'm searching for?!?"
With Citavi, I have been able to drag each highlight to a section of my paper outline, so I know when I will need to reference it. I can make a note about the highlight, summarize it, quote it, etc.
As I start to write my paper, I open that section of the outline, and have specific notes and material related to just that paragraph. I can also tag them, so if it becomes relevant to a later paper, the tag is there and ready for me to find it.
I'm hopelessly a Qiqqa devotee, plus I don't want to lose all my annotations to this point (they aren't exporting to Citavi), but, man, tagging annotations is another level for writing papers. Given the how and why of the Qiqqa origin, this is precisely the type of feature that would support the original mission of making research possible!
I'm not a programmer.
Please make my dream a reality?!?
I've been trialing Citavi. With Qiqqa, it's been good to have tags related to an entire document, but then I have to browse the paper to find exactly what I was thinking about, or don't highlight something that isn't specifically relevant to my current thought process. Regardless, there is still a good amount of searching and head scratching. "shoot, which article did I see that thought in, which related to this other concept I wasn't thinking about at the time", or "this article is so long! Where is that section I'm searching for?!?" With Citavi, I have been able to drag each highlight to a section of my paper outline, so I know when I will need to reference it. I can make a note about the highlight, summarize it, quote it, etc.
As I start to write my paper, I open that section of the outline, and have specific notes and material related to just that paragraph. I can also tag them, so if it becomes relevant to a later paper, the tag is there and ready for me to find it. I'm hopelessly a Qiqqa devotee, plus I don't want to lose all my annotations to this point (they aren't exporting to Citavi), but, man, tagging annotations is another level for writing papers. Given the how and why of the Qiqqa origin, this is precisely the type of feature that would support the original mission of making research possible!
I'm not a programmer.
Please make my dream a reality?!?