HE - notecards
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HE - notecardsby Susie - 06:51PM, Jul 31, 2005 |
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Has anyone developed a method or template to simulate good old-fashioned notecards on Notebook? I'm an English professor juggling several overlapping projects (a book and several articles) and need an efficient, reliable system! I'd like each note to have its own "card" but be able to mark its card with bibliographical note and keywords. I tried the Noteworthy virtual notecard software, but it's a bit awkward and crashes too frequently for comfort. My reading notes are all on Endnote, which is wonderful for generating bibliographies but not really designed for note-taking; I've been typing my notes in the Notes field for each entry, but I'd like to be able to manipulate individual notes via keyword and sources. Thanks very much for any suggestions!
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How about using Notebook. You can use one page per reference. Cut and paste the citation from Endnote. This info can go at the top of the page. Then take notes on the page. You can add keywords in the normal way (e.g., as notebook keywords) or just type the words below the citation on the page. You can use the index page to find all pages with a certain keyword or use the search function to search for phrases. use the highlighter to mark important notes (you can search based on highlighter, too). You an also easily print out your notes (to full size paper or change the page size to 3x5, 4x6 or whatever you like).
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Susie, did you have a look at Darrell Rudmann's "Article Notes Template" in the template swap section? http://circusponies.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/911606035/m/743106089 Cheers, /Markus.
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Thanks very much, ck and Markus. After my first post, I browsed around the other messages and found Darrell Rudman's brilliant template. I've been tinkering with the template a bit (each reference as a divider with each note as a page, keyworded to the reference). Notebook is wonderfully elegant and smart (the contents card, for example, is very useful for tracking recurring questions and themes) and may just be what I've been looking for - but playing with all those features is already proving a dangerous procrastination trick. If only I'd had this software while writing my dissertation.
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07:33PM, Aug 03, 2005