ulrichb

Dear Derek,

thank you very very much for your detailed answer.
I instantly tried your suggestions. This is what I found.

Free notes:
You are right: in the menu of “add manually” ist is possible to change the citation style. I didn’t see this. Suggestion: a small triangle at the right side of te citation style bar would show the user, that this is a dropdown.

In free notes I couldn’t manage to put in links to a part of the note text. Do you have a suggestion for this ?

I understand, that the individaual citations I put in ABT are not saved in a database. So this makes clear, why they can’t be edited later.
Suggestion: I would really appreciate, if I could edit everything later, when its time. In manualy notes I can make a mistake – it would be nice to be able to correct this.
I really mean it: I would love to pay for your software, if I could use it the way I describe…

You are very right, that a correct citation needs all information, and if information is missing, the citation will not be complete and then the work will be incorrect. But a correct text is the final goal. At the moment we are talking about the way to reach this.
When I’m writig a text, I am following an idea. This ist what is really important: getting the idea done. Filling the whole citation in this moment keeps me from following my idea – I just want to pin what I do know about a citation at the moment, as a reminder – and go on with my idea.

How abput this:
If citations were kept in a database, not yet completed entries could be marked with a colour in the list, so I can see, that I would have to go in there again, and manage this later.

If citations were in the database this would be a step towards the additional ability, to put the footnotes not at the end of this actual page, but in an extra page where all citations of al pages are shown.
I am writing about a neurological problem. I do write about this in several pages. And on every new site I do need several citations I had already looked up yet on another site of my text – and now I have to look them up again.
If all citations were shown in one database for all texts of this domain, I could pick out if my databaseentries what I had put in before instead of lokking for this again and again.

It would be great to have one big citation site on the domain project instead of citations on every site which repeat themselves with different numbers. I think it is annoying fo users, to read a text and find one cotation as number 4 here, as number 33 there and number 68 in another page of the domain.

I understood, that you explained, it would be possible, to put in citations in the middle of text, which I looked up woth ABT, so ABT could just be used as a research tool and the footnotes could be managed in another tool by grabbing the text output of ABT. I folowed yyour link but I couldn’t find this. Could you help me again ?

Thank you very very much for your great software. I was really astonished about the feature of getting defined sitations just by searching in a database. This is so very coool !
I would be pleased so very much to find a way to integrate this in my daily research work.

Best regards

Ulrich

(sorry for my poor english)

• This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by ulrichb.

Thank you for this. Not using windows is quite wise 😉

Did anybody have issues with wordpress getting slow after a windows 10 update these weeks ?

HI, my notebook is running win 10, the terminalserver is running Win 2008 R3.