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From: MNRebecca on 8 Jun 2010 17:28
On Jun 8, 4:14 pm, Jolly Roger <jollyro...(a)pobox.com> wrote:

> Hmm... I wonder what the advantage would be to a specialized tagging
> application when you could just store this information in text files and
> do a Spotlight search of the content to find related information?

I only want to find John when I search for items tagged "John." But I
guess I could just type "TagJohn" in each item.
From: Wes Groleau on 8 Jun 2010 17:32
On 06-08-2010 17:01, MNRebecca wrote:
> Wish it
> 1. Was available for Mac 10.4
> 2. Let you create multiple libraries

I said I know little about EndNote, but I do know
the copy I have does both of those.

I hate the name, because I hate endnotes. I find it
ironic that printers used to put in a lot of work
to manually handle footnotes correctly, yet now that
automation makes it simple, most publishers now make
us search for the note in the back of the book.

--
Wes Groleau

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From: AES on 10 Jun 2010 05:53
In article
<462dfc3f-242c-47c7-937e-317f28ec3e53(a)d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
MNRebecca <webbrl(a)morris.umn.edu> wrote:

> On Jun 8, 4:14�pm, Jolly Roger <jollyro...(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > Hmm... I wonder what the advantage would be to a specialized tagging
> > application when you could just store this information in text files and
> > do a Spotlight search of the content to find related information?
>
> I only want to find John when I search for items tagged "John." But I
> guess I could just type "TagJohn" in each item.

EndNote could be used for this. Not what it's intended for, but its
inherent capabilities could be repurposed for this, with a lot of power,
and it's reliable, fast, and easy to use.
From: gtr on 10 Jun 2010 11:48
On 2010-06-08 12:28:24 -0700, MNRebecca said:

> I'm looking for software that will allow me to organize research
> information for a book, a computerized version of notecards, if you
> will, only with the ability to tag each card with multiple identifiers
> for searching and sorting. For example:
>
> Say I'm writing a book about Matt, Mark, Luke and John who lived in
> Paris, New York, and Rome from 1970 to 1980. I find an article about
> John and Luke going to Studio 54 in 1977. I want to be able to make
> an entry or note where I say,
>
> "According to NYT 5/4/1977 ppA-13, John got arrested in 1977 during a
> bust of Studio 54."
>
> Then I want to tag it with "John," "Luke," "1977," and "New York," so
> that it pops up later when I do a search for all my notes about John.
>
> I also want to be able to ADD more tags later (like 'Arrests' or
> 'illness').
>
> Suggestions?

DevonThink does exactly that:

http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/

I've been using it for many years and consider it indispensible. It
doesn't use the card metaphor like Scrivener does (by the way have you
looked at that?), but it does allow you to play with tags, any tags,
all tags to your heart's content.
--
If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?

From: MNRebecca on 14 Jun 2010 12:16
On Jun 10, 10:48 am, gtr <x...(a)yyy.zzz> wrote:

> DevonThink does exactly that:
>
>        http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/

Requires Mac 10.5...

> It
> doesn't use the card metaphor like Scrivener does (by the way have you
> looked at that?),

Mac 10.4! Awesome! But Mac only, I see...

Thanks for the info!
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