![]() Many of these software development teams do not take the approach that potential software users coming to their website want to be oriented to how these software solutions work together to solve specific problems in the language documentation problem space. One of my ongoing concerns of linguistic software development teams (like SIL International's Palaso or LSDev, or MPI's archive software group, or a host of other niche software products adapted from main stream open-source projects) is the approach they take in communicating how to use the various elements of their software together to create useful workflows for linguists participating in field research on minority languages. In this post I take a look at some of the software needs of a language documentation team. Posted in Other Journals | Tagged Endnote, Review, Software, To move | Leave a reply Software Needs for a Language Documentation Project Papers2 just didn't have the custom Fields necessary for me. For me, Papers2 (I haven't bought Papers3) nailed the interaction around PDF management and citation management, from a User Experience perspective. These are my observations as I try and work with Endnote (and have over the last few months). And if they are not in the Endnote managed folder I want a visual indication that they are outside the Endnote data folder. for me, Endnote, when importing citations which contain a relative link to a PDF on my machine, does not actually import the PDF to an endnote managed folder.No auto suggest for missing citation metadata.There does not seem to be an export style for exporting to bibJSON.When looking at a reference, there is no clear way to determine if it is in one of several collections (including in the check for duplicate script).There is no mechanism in the collections area to browse by Journal or Book series.(Which for some might be very long, and cause the script to crash!) The "detect duplicates" script does not allow one to exit successfully prior to completing all the items in your detected duplicate list.There still is no keyboard short cut for importing a reference.Keep in mind that I have over 8,500 references in my Endnote file. A few years ago I wrote a review of Endnote X4 for Mac and I thought that I would go back and take a look at what I thought about that review and the new version of Endnote 8. In the past I have used a combination of Endnote and Papers2. Right now, that seems very likely.Some days I just don't like Endnote any more. I'll purchase a license if I'm still using Journler in 2 months or so. ![]() After that, Journler is going shareware and the price will be $34.95. Journler 2.5 is a free download until Wednesday. I should still be able to copy Journals as HTML and paste them in a blog. Future editions of Journler won't support blogging, but I don't want to leave Blogger anyway (yet). I also tested the Blog feature - it works with WordPress, not Blogger. Journler's audio-video import and iPhoto browser are killer features that will be a huge part of my new workflow. ![]() In less than two hours, everything was in its place and I learned enough to use Journler. I was tagging and dragging those notes and email messages all over the place. Importing all my notes and actions seemed daunting until I got started. That system worked well for eighteen (18!) months. Until last week, I used DEVONnote plus Mail.app plus iCal to capture and organize all my information. Everything is organized into smart folders which also sit up in the Bookmarks Bar.Project plans and their associated actions are organized chronologically by due date. A project gets its own folder and maybe a color label, too.But I also use a tag for each of my classes at school. The two most common tags are and contexts.Next actions get flagged with a keystroke and sometimes sent to iCal with an Applescript invoked by Quicksilver.Notes & Links is the default for thoughts, reminders, and webpages that need to be filed away. I love using multiple categories and tags for each journal entry. Everything gets categorized and tagged.Email actions get copy-pasted into Journler and filed via Mail Act-On.Snippets of information get dropped into the Journler Drop Box on my desktop.If that weren't enough, Journler has seamless integration with the iLife suite and acts EXACTLY the way Mac App should.īam! I'm rocking the Journler now. But Journler also has great support for multiple categories and and tags. ![]() I chose Journaler for it's smart folders and the way it links/browses email messages. So last week I experimented with iGTD, Journler, and a couple other apps. ![]()
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