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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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I guess having Word is...

Submitted by dancingbrook on February 21, 2007 - 10:53am.

ScottE22;8249 wrote:
I guess having Word is like having a fax machine... You don't need it every day, but when you do need it you have to have it.

ScottE22,

Don't be fooled into thinking you "need" M$Word. There are many good alternatives that will save word files. Any respectable college should know better than to make you buy into an essential monopoly app.

Scrivener is another app worth taking a gander at:
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

I haven't tried it yet, but it looks very interesting.