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student organization

as a high school student a lot of files come through my computer. i have been using journler to organize all my files, journler entries, omnioutliner, pages, and the rest. smart folders and the other features keep it all organized. i want to know if there is any other program that would do the same as journler but more student centered. i do keep all my files in it as well so it cant be just a journal program. price isn't an issue.

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re: Best Digital Tools for Students

I'll second Scrivener for getting your writing projects under control. Its full screen mode is perfect for blocking out all distractions and it was designed by someone who is a writer himself.

For word-processing and formatting I would recommend NisusWriter Pro. It may be more than you would need for high school, but as you get into writing larger papers, nothing beats its killer search/find/replace features, and formatting is a lot more intuitive than Word.

Bookends X is also a wonderful, and very mac-savvy program for managing all of your books and for automatically formatting your footnotes and bibliographies.

I'm also partial to my own programs -- Ready-Set-Do! -- a file-oriented approach to getting things done on the mac. And Speak It On My iPod -- that converts text into audio you can listen to on your iPod or iPhone.

If you try Ready-Set-Do!, you'll want to read the "How to Use RSD" file so you can see how it can help you plan your projects. If you assign a due date to a project -- say, a paper due at the end of the semester -- it automatically calculates the deadlines for all of the sub-tasks you'll need to get done to finish it on time; and the tasks turn Yellow -> Orange-> Red as the deadline for each one approaches. I always wanted a program that would not only tell me when something was due but would also tell me when I needed to get everything else done in order to get the entire project done on time. So I wrote a program that finally delivers that for me. It takes some getting used to, but it's a pretty cool setup.

Hope that helps.

 
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