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Well, over the years of the evolution of the ‘reference manager’ genre, many applications have started to expand their functionalty.
Recognizing the benefits of storing and managing bibliographical data together with the electronic documents, many applications went on to become ‘library managers’. As far as I remember, their original idea was to store PDFs in one place and only later did they put more emphasis on citation features.) (Actually, Papers came the other way around. One other important step was when these applications started to offer highlighting and note-taking features. After all, scholars don’t just want to administer these documents, but they work with them before they use them as cited sources. Okay, now they store store highlights and notes with each PDF.
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I am thankful for that, but that I still consider more an administrative function rather than something that lubricates the thinking (and writing) process.īy then end of my PhD, I had over 800 documents in my Sente library incuding journal articles and full books, many with highlights and notes. How am I supposed to find interesting bits related to one concept, idea or topic? My highlights and notes are there somewhere in those documents but there is no easy way of tracking them down and working with them. They are searchable or can be made searchable (see Jeff Pooley’s guide on Macademic here), but that is often not very helpful. I would for instance like to see them in one place organized according to some logic. My current practice is that I make the highlights in Sente for any potential future use and at the same time I copy the text (quote) to Scrivener with the citation info and keep these snippets organized there. I would for instance have a card for ‘innovation (def.)’ in which I would only collect various definitions of innovation from the sources I read. If these papers were printed out, rather than making paper clippings and pasting them in one place, I would simply highlight the relevant portion of the text in neon yellow and I would also add a note in the margin saying something like “def.” That would be for quick reference, so that when I flip through the pages I could get an idea at a glance of why I highlighted something. This is basically good old fashioned tagging.
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And this is what is missing from all the reference software: being able to easily tag not the PDF itself, but the highlighted parts in them. Then ideally I could get the app to display all snippets of highlighted text in my whole document library associated with a specific tag (or combination of tags). I am dreaming of being able to enter and and getting a list of snippets tagged ‘innovation’ and ‘def.’ Maybe I could even set up a smart collection named “Definitions of innovation” that would be automatically updated and whenever I highlight and tag something new it makes its way over to my snippet collection. Now, that would be a great step forward in not only helping scholars with administering sources but also facilitating the thinking part of the research process.
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Until these features are implemented in our favorite now-way-more-than-just-reference managers, you can see how something very similar is done in the popular content analysis software Nvivo. So far, I have only thought of Nvivo (or the like) as useful in analyzing (qualitative) data such as interview transcripts, reports etc., but the same principles can be applied to processing academic sources during literature reviews.
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Check out this official video from QSR International, makers of Nvivo, on how to do a literature review with Nvivo. You may also want to watch this other piece on how to use Nvivo for a PhD. The bad news is that Nvivo is only available for Windows. The good news, however, is that it is coming to Mac very soon. Have you tried Docear? I was looking for a mind-mapping solution to organize all aspects of a sales territory,(I happen to be in technical sales) when I came across Docear.
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