Hacking Your Mac(for academic research!)

CSSCR WorkshopTim Pasch

Back to School Seminar-

Friday September 19th

University of Washington

In this course we will:Go through a Mac-based sample research workflow

Introduce DevonAgent for thorough searching of the Internet

Introduce the program called Papers

Introduce Endnote and give a brief demonstration

Introduce (time permitting) the applications Novamind, iclip, Copypaste Pro, and Screenflow.

Let’s start our workflow.

First, we’ll do a deep search of the Internet using some powerful tools to zero in on our topic and potential avenues of exploration. (This is DevonAgent.)

Next, we’ll look at ways to organize the papers that we find in a powerful database called Papers.

We’ll talk about citing these resources using Endnote,

and finally we’ll look at some utilities to make the workflow run smoother. Let’s get started!

Using DevonAgent Beginning a search

Using Boolean quantifiers

Searching along the branches

Papers! A powerful tool

What is Papers?

What does it do?

Who can benefit?

Can it integrate with Word and Endnote?

What else can it do?

Does it replace Endnote?

Show me what Papers is like! (let’s practice!)

Let’s talk about Endnote!

Love/hate relationship with Mac users

Once understood, a very powerful tool

Just recently compatible with Word 2008

Let’s talk about the patch for X1, X2 links, and give a demonstration of an Endnote workflow in Word 2008.

Word 2008 and Endnote

What’s Cite While you Write?

Show me the toolbar in Word!

Formatting bibliographies?

Input and output filters

Entering references manually

Caveats and cautions before starting

Alternatives (Bookends, Sente, Zotero, Endnote Web)

Integrating Papers/Endnote

Moving Between Papers and Endnote

Deciding between the two, or using both?

Import/Export filters between the two

Questions?

Let’s move a reference from Papers to Endnote.

DevonThink Pro Office

The dream of the paperless academic

Fujitsu Scansnap Scanners

OCR and the Database to end all Databases

A second brain?

Caveats and comments

Novamind&Mindmapping

What is Mindmapping?

When would I use this?

Integration with other programs

Ideas for use

Demonstration

Additional ‘helpers’Copypaste Pro and Iclip, indispensable tools

What’s Skitch? An indispensable tool, that’s what!

Tell me about Screenflow! The best software of the year!

Thoughts and Questions- and thanks!