If you were to start planning for a potential new research project, what system of notekeeping for brainstormed ideas/resources would you use? Would it be Scrivener or is there something better? Would you rather use word docs and folders instead (in a v particular way - if so, how)?
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https://obsidian.md/
Obsidian Sync for collabs.
Do you use Word documents alongside it, or have you moved all your writing and note-taking to Obsidian? And do you think you'll be using it for many years to come? (trying to figure out if it's worth the effort of moving everything there)
So I can copy/paste from Obsidian into Overleaf which is a collaborative LaTeX template and markdown is easily translatable to HTML.
e.g. my course notes: https://publish.obsidian.md/mg2600/README
Seeing everything on the screen is really helpful and I've not manged to find anything else that's better than Scrivener.
That said, when there are too many things that need to be juggled as part of a process/project, it's difficult to manage all the docs.
Do you use Word documents alongside it, or have you moved all your writing and note-taking to Obsidian? And do you think you'll be using it for many years to come? (trying to figure out if it's worth the effort of moving everything there)
Then, depending on the length of the document, I use Scrivener or Word.
- You can customise to your hearts content with different building blocks, pages within pages, and making it look nice
- The database feature is SO powerful
- Not owned by big tech (yet)
BUT you have to be online which gets a bit annoying. Also it can be slow to load
The fact you have to be online makes me wonder if info could be lost if the internet suddenly goes down (which happens quite often). I've gone back to Scrivener for now - hoping to use it at least for one particular project.
Funnily enough I tried Scrivener exactly ONCE and then forgot about it. Maybe I should have a look at it again…
I've tried Scrivener a few times over the past few years but ended up moving things back into folders..
I've tried to use Obsidian (following suggestions in this thread) but in the end, I decided to go back to Scrivener. For object permanence purposes, it's really helpful (even though it's so tempting to just keep creating more Word Documents that I can then see on the desktop).
I mean it’s absolutely not going well so far bc of my diss, but trying to move away from their stuff once that’s gone. There’s AI implemented in everything & I really don’t trust their „off“ to be „off-off“.
Also, do you use OneNote via a browser or an installed program? I'd be worried of losing data due to syncing problems (I've had glitches in the past with MS autosave on OneDrive + Evernote)