![]() Should you choose to purchase the Field Guide (and I highly recommend it if you purchase the app), you'll find David's interview with me in Chapter 20. I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by David Sparks about my use of DEVONthink as a graduate student/researcher for his DEVONthink Field Guide. However, I found those particular extensions to software to not be the greatest at formatting correctly. The only drawback is the inability to export citations and references directly into a Word document. By creating my own metadata, I am not limited to the different structures created by the programmers of Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, or any other piece of software. I am not limited to any particular device because the entire database, PDF and all, are synced via iCloud. I am able to highlight it and annotate it both with the desktop app, the mobile app, or any other PDF app.īy using DEVONthink to curate all my resources, I have been able to create a customized solution for me within my own research. In this case, it is a PDF of Halverson and Sheridan's 2014 journal article entitled " The Maker Movement in Education". The primary porton of the screenshot are the two-thirds in the central panel displaying the specific resource. Hopefully the remaining metadata are self-explanatory. Because in APA citations we treat certain titles differently (e.g., book and journal titles are italicized while article and chapter titles are not.), I created separate Item Title and Container Title metadata. I am learning how to script this from the other pieces of metadata. ![]() Reference is the APA version of the reference. Citation is the APA version of the in-text citation. Types inlcude Journal Article, Dissertation, Book Chapter, Book, Conference Proceedings, Masters Project, and White Paper. Here, you can see the custom metadata I have created that allows me to categorize the different resources I have collected. The different columns in this view are customizable, and I've chosen to relate them to the Information Panel on the right third of the screenshot. The only items I primarily use are the Inboxes (resources remaining to be filed) and Tags (categories for different resources).Īcross the top third of the center panel is a list of all the PDF documents in my Maker-Centered Music database. The other links in the left-hand column are to different features within the program. Lastly, the VanderCook database contains resources I saved from my Masters program. Self-Determination Theory, as a database, contains resources I saved specific to that theoretical framework-a potential future area of research in which I am interested. Music contains specific music education resources. Maker-Centered Music is everything I've collectd in relation to my desired dissertation project. The Education database contains journal articles and other resources I've saved specifically related to education. ![]() Boston University are all of the saved documents from my coursework at BU. The left-hand column primarily shows my different databases ( Open Databases). ![]() DEVONthink wraps a database structure around the files and adds excellent search, optical character recognition (OCR), annotation, sync, and more features. In a recent podcast, David Sparks and Stephen Hackett referred to DEVONthink as a file manager like the Finder for macOS or Explorer for Windows. Both feature desktop and mobile versions and both wrap their interfaces around default files-primarily PDFs and Markdown files in DEVONthink and Obsidian, respectively. ![]() I finally landed on two applications: DEVONthink and Obsidian. While some of my colleagues had used EndNote, I found it far too cumbersome. I frequently used the mobile app to read, highlight, and annotate on my iPad. The final nail in the coffin was their March 2011 announcement that they would be retiring their mobile app. During my doctoral program at Boston University, I began noticing issues in Mendeley with syncing between devices. I found it odd to use in my workflow, so I switched to Mendeley at my wife's suggestion. In my masters program at VanderCook, the professors recommended we used Zotero to curate our scholarly work. I have written a few times about the different research applications I have been using ( Note Taking Applications, Qualitative Research Methods: Weeks 4–5), but things have changed yet again. ![]()
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