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1. #DEVONTHINK EASYFIND FULL#
2. #DEVONTHINK EASYFIND PRO#
3. #DEVONTHINK EASYFIND SOFTWARE#
4. #DEVONTHINK EASYFIND PLUS#

Everything else is just left raw in the file folders. ASCII text, followed by Rich Text Format (.rtf), followed by PDF, when necessary, Microsoft Word format. If there's an underlying rule here, it is this: save stuff in the simplest, most basic file format possible for the media type. rtf format when a transcript is finished. I then use - reluctantly - Microsoft Word for the book manuscript.įor interview transcript creation, I use Transcrivia and then promptly export to. They're a mix of outline, notes, and found material. These "slush" files form the basis of each chapter.

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Then I take the contents of the text files and the PDFs and I drop 'em in the appropriate "slush" files, of which there is one per chapter, using Omni Group's OmniOutliner Pro software, which spews out. I put the raw files into folders and sub-folders. the operating system's filesystem, MacOS X. I save the files as WAV or MP3.įor notes, documents, interview transcripts, scans, images, everything under the sun, I use.

#DEVONTHINK EASYFIND PLUS#

As for Skype, never done an interview with it yet, and for this book I've done 500+ interviews.įor interviews, I use two recording devices if I am on the road, an Olympus digital recorder and my iPhone's recording app, and if I am at the office doing a phone interview, I use those two plus I set AudioHijack to record right from the Mac's built-in mic to pick up the phone conversation. And Livescribe is cool indeed, but I kinda don't trust that either. I looked at Scrivener and while it's nice and all, I don't trust it.

#DEVONTHINK EASYFIND FULL#

I also use DEVONthink to mirror a lot of my Scrivener notes and store the full text of the thousands of scientific papers and articles I’ve read and found worth saving.Īnd this is the crux of it for me. The note-writing is a crucial part of the task for me, because it requires me to slow down and make sense of what I’m reading, instead of just blindly clipping and saving everything. I have a Scrivener database for my research-whenever I read anything interesting, I make a note about it and paste in any relevant passages. I use Skype out for most of my phone interviews, and Call Recorder to save those files.

#DEVONTHINK EASYFIND SOFTWARE#

That interview has become vital to my whole project, and forms the basis of the first chapter of my book.įor face-to-face interviews, I use a Livescribe pen, which is invaluable even though the software is kind of creaky. Skinner in 1987, at his office in the Psych dept of Harvard University. I've got interviews I did in 1986, 1987 that form the basis for much of the book. Yes, my book project has been going on a while. I too am a packrat and have vacuumed up every shred of information I could get my hands on since 1985. So I lean heavily on tools for finding and saving everything. I write primarily long-form magazine pieces and books, each of which takes months to report and sometimes years to gestate, so I often find myself realizing an interview or study I encountered three years earlier is suddently useful now. I like to save everything, because you never know when it'll be useful. I'm a pack rat when it comes to research.

At first glance, his answers made what for him I'm sure is a lot of sense, but as I thought about it more, I thought how much I have tried to avoid getting stuck with any particular tool. Noticed this BoingBoing artlcle today entitled " Writer Clive Thompson describes his work routine" which quoted a Lifehacker article on Thompson entitled " I'm Clive Thompson, and This Is How I Work" which among other questions and answers contained an answer to the question "What apps/software/tools can't you live without?"Ĭlive's answer was interesting and got me thinking about how I'm writing my book on the history of the PLATO system.