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Grad Students Represent: Note Taking / References on OS X

Submitted by ScottE22 on February 16, 2007 - 7:53am.

My new MacBook arrived last week. As I am beginning a doctoral program in the fall, I'm interested in knowing what others are using to (1) take notes on the Mac, and (2) start building a reference or bibliography for a dissertation.

For note taking, I have Googled up quite a few, including:

And for references/bibliography building, I have heard about Endnote.

Ultimately whatever I choose I want to be able to stick with for my entire program so I'm not worrying about compatibility issues, etc.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!!

Scott

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You cannot forget VoodooPad. ...

Submitted by solidsnot on February 17, 2007 - 9:50am.

You cannot forget VoodooPad. It's excellent for taking notes.

I own a lot of these types of apps (DevonThink, VoodooPad, MacJournal...) and for taking notes VoodooPad is perfect and a lot cheaper than DevonThink. If, however, you are going to be doing more than just taking notes and want to do some heavy research then DevonThink (Pro) is what you are going to need.