Tools for Research Life

The work of many researchers is faced with issues in handling a diversity of activities and tools, which hinders communication, collaboration and productivity.

 

Capturing data (from media, events or everyday life):
Paper, web, audio, photo and video… tools
Note taking (meetings, memoing, brainstorming, …):
Evernote, OneNote, Workflowy, Word …
Literature review (and bibliographic management):
Adobe PDF, Zotero, EndNote, Mendeley…
Storing and managing data:
Dropbox, Google drive, Onedrive, …
Transcribing:
Word, Express Scribe, Dragon, …
Analysing:
Nvivo, Atlas.ti, Max QDA, Transana, …
Writing and reporting:
Microsoft Word, Adobe Indesign, Scrivener, …
Sharing and Collaborating:
Google Docs and Hangout, Word Online and Skype, …
Project managing:
Outlook, Google Calendar, Todoist, Basecamp, …

 


We provide research training in OneNote and design of Digital Research Notebooks (customized OneNote noteboooks) to integrate and manage the diversity of research life, promoting more productive organization and collaboration. With OneNote in your research you can:

   Integrate research activities and tools …

by using a comprehensive software to take notes, brainstorm, prepare meetings,  do institutional work, literature reviews, transcribe, annotate, hyperlink and code; keep a journal, write memos, papers and reports, etc.

Connecting your data collection, creative, analytical and institutional work.

   Organize research data and insights  …

as intuitively as with a paper notebook, through sections, with pages and subpages; where you can collect and work on all your media, not just text, but also handwriting, drawings, audio, photos, video and files (word, pdf, excel, …). 

Keeping your paper and digital work together.

 icon-calendar  Manage research tasks and decisions 

as in project management apps, by to-do lists. But also through deciding and monitoring your tasks in the actual pages where they are developed, by tagging any piece of text or object with icons like, to-do’s, to think, vote, etc.; which can be searched and summary reports generated.

Becoming more effective and grounded.

 icon-comments  Share, Collaborate, do Participatory projects …

the author of any paragraph of text is identified by an icon, users can be viewers or editors and can be granted access to different content. The notebooks are free, available across platforms and devices (Win, Mac, mobile); are easy to use and highly customisable.

Promoting innovation and transparency.

 

 

See what can be done in practice