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Organization of Thesis project, please help!

Hello all,

I am currently in an organizational malaise. I am in France working on a graduate internship (MA in International Education) and concurrently have to work on a graduate thesis project which involes the design of a new study abroad program (sort of like a thesis). I have many word documents that I am working with and posting to Blackboard (course org. software online). The trouble is, I feel like a complete mess having no central place to work with and view my documents with incidental notes, to do's etc. I would just a like a tableau or digital space to organize all this information (references, links etc). I have tried Backpackit, but would really prefer an OS X program that would automatically link my documents with it, so that the documents in it would always reflect the most current one (so that I won't have to keep uploading changes) etc. I do have Omni Outliner Pro, but it feels pretty big, almost too big to get into and kGTD feels messy and complicated to me. Are there any other programs I should look into for this type of project management? Midnight Inbox looks promising, but is not there yet in terms of usability. Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Matt

TOPICS: Mac OS X
Todd V's picture

re: Getting a Thesis Together on Mac OS X

You can try Ready-Set-Do! which is a program I designed for the Mac. This works really well for getting big projects -- like a thesis -- organized and moving forward.

But other programs I would recommend as well would be the following:

Scrivener has cork-board functionality for people who are looking for digital space to view their stuff and organize it. Curio also has some nice ways of putting together content and connecting it with projects. Both of these are for people who like to organize things visually.

Nisus Writer Pro is excellent for its Power Find and Replace -- especially good for editing long writing projects.

Also checkout Bookends X for handling your Bibliographical information. It's Amazon search makes adding book data to your collection very easy.

Hope that helps.

 
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