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Resources
Here you will find some resources that I found useful in my own PhD journey
Unless otherwise stated, I have used all the resources listed on this page
Sticky Notes for computer screens
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TurboNote+
This program sits in your tray and allows you to pull up a “sticky note” for reminders, to do lists, shopping lists, alarms and lots more. You can even use hyperlinks to documents you are working on!
You can have the sticky notes appear on your desktop, or you can hide individual ones. You can colour code them. You can send notes to other users.
The program also includes a calendar, a screen capture facility (VERY useful), bulletted lists and check boxes.
I used this program to (amongst other things) put a huge Failure is not an option message in the middle of my computer screen so that I saw it every time I booted up the computer. This program really helped me finish my PhD.
Get it here
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NdxCards
Note Taking software that includes several different types of note cards, including Action cards, Bibliography cards, author cards, note cards. It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot better than I had when I was doing my own dissertation. I’m playing with it for notes for the publication of my dissertation.
For PC only, sorry.
http://www.ndxcards.com/ |
MailBigFile.com
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This is a handy way to send huge files to your committee, supervisor or editor. There is a free service available, and the service accepts 101 different file types.
If you are writing your dissertation in a single file and it becomes huge (over 2 Mb), you may have trouble sending it to other people by email - their email boxes may have a size limit.
What’s the solution? If you don’t have your own website or access to a university website where you can upload files, sign up for an account at MailBigFiles.com, upload your file, then the website sends an email to the intended recipient that the file is available for download.
Wonderful idea! I didn’t use it for my dissertation, but I have successfully used it to receive large files from editing clients.
http://www.mailbigfile.com |
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