bibliography for research

[anonymous]

I think one important feature that microsft has neglected while developing
onenote is to userstand the purpose that researchers want to use onenote for.

onenote does not have any proper meachanism for organizing references and
arranging bibliography from research papers. This is a critical feature that
is missing in onenote.

maybe u guys should take a look at endnote and see how useful it is to
researchers in organizing reference papers.



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[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Use a noteflag to indicate source material then use a Note Flags Summary to
aggegrate all of those into one place.


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[anonymous]

I know about note flags but it does not solve the problem. I would ideally
like to use Onenote for organizing my phd research and help me while I am
writing it in MS word rather than using LaTeX.

However, the way you mention about using Note Flags appears very cryptic to
me e.g. I have a research paper from xyz journal. Now I want to add some
information regarding it - what is unique in the paper, which author,
journal, published year etc. so that it remains organized and it is easy for
me to find the paper by doing a quick search based on some parameters. This
is important for me as I have over a 100 papers that I am using.

Endnote (http://www.endnote.com/support/helpdocs/EN9-EnterRefs.pdf) can do
this for me but it does not organize other documents for my research and is
not tied up with Outlook, my meetings schedule, etc. So, I would prefer using
Onenote but the bibiography feature is non existant

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

I guess I don't see the problem. I can type any metadata about a research
paper that I like right there with the name of the paper; including author,
etc. It's unstructured data, to be sure, but it's there and fully
searchable. I can use a special note flag to indicate that it's
bibliographical information which then lets me easily aggregate all of my
sources with the Note Flag Summary.

Is the problem that you want a more structured method of input or ?


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-Ben-
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Roland Schorr & Tower
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[Crystal8]

As a fellow PhD student, I understand the problem. I would like to search
from OneNote and retrieve articles from Endnote...possibly even retrieve
articles that Endnote would retrieve via its list of online DB, ie, PubMed
(which is free). Then download the bibliographies. To also be able to have
the hyperlinks placed in APA format when imported into OneNote as an option
would be ideal.

 

[smsmd]

Hi Anomymous,

I am also working on a graduate degree and need to write research papers in
the sciences. The lack of referencing has made me give up on OneNote and do
my outlining and data collection in Word, as it allows me to add the
references to the outline with EndNote. I then just edit the outline with the
full text and the Endnote refs are there.

I would prefer to use OneNote for the data collection, but it would take
much too long to type in 100 refs to OneNote, then again in Endnote for the
paper. I might try OneNote again if it handled EndNote refs that I could then
move, if needed (maybe I could just do the entire paper in OneNote), to Word.

Thanks, steve