With the premium version of Evernote ($5.99/month), you can even search the text of PDFs or any OCR-enabled format as well. Within the notebooks, by utilizing a good tagging system (developed through trial and error, and full of idiosyncrasies), I can even search for particular sources and phrases. Whether I’m looking at primary or secondary sources, I can create separate notebooks for each source, or corresponding to a particular chapter in the manuscript(s). Like many academics, I’ve embraced Evernote as a digital tool that offers me the best framework for taking, organizing, and archiving my research notes. And while the research process for the three contains some overlap, it’s not a whole lot I’ve learned that I need to really up my organization game if I want to manage these projects. Because I am batshit crazy embracing scholarly productivity, I’m currently working on an article and two book manuscripts. Feel the 256 MB of pure POWERįast-forward fifteen years, and I recently found myself in the same sort of techno-fantasy land. So speech-to-text really seemed like a pipe dream, given that every time one of my cats jostled the loose phone jack, I’d get booted offline. If this sounds somewhat quaint, I should note that I wrote every last one of those 440 pages on a first-generation iMac (BLUEBERRY!) using WordPerfect 8 for Macintosh, and taking breaks on AOL dial-up internet. When I was researching and writing my dissertation, I would fantasize about some magic technology that would transcribe my speech into text, complete with Chicago-style formatting, and I could dictate my research notes and chapter drafts while swinging in a hammock and sipping umbrella drinks.

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