adewey@portia.Stanford.EDU (anne day dewey) (03/21/90)
Hello there,
I am looking for a Macintosh program to help me in my scholarly
research.
As a historian I use hundreds of notecards that contain references to
articles, books or documents, excerpts and quotes, bibliographies, little
notes to myself, etc., ranging in length from a few lines to several
pages--all of these crammed into file boxes or hidden in manila folders
somewhere on the shelves in my office, to be lost and forgotten.
How nice it would be if all this material were on my harddisk, kept in
order by some wonderful program that would make it instantly (more or
less) accessible. Ideally this program would permit me to see several
cards at the same time while I use my word processor to write my
terribly important articles.
I know, this sounds very much like a hypercard stack. And I would be
content with that. But hypercard is somewhat slow and only shows one
card at a time. Is there some other kind of database manager dedicated to
this kind of work that would be faster and less bulky? What about
EndNote, Publish or Perish, Pro-Cite, ArchiText? Do they do more than
just generate bibliographies?
If anybody out there knows of such programs and stacks, please email
me, and I will summarize your comments and recommendations.
Thank you.
Raimund Lammersdorf adewey@portia.stanford.edu
(someone else's account)