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Academic Researcher: Increase Your Research Productivity with the Leading Web 2.0 Research Portal

arin...@gmail.com (Arin280) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:36:24 UT

Dear AcademicResearcher,
Web 2.0 research portals are the newest and best approach to
increasing your research productivity. I created MyNetResearch.com to
bring about efficient research management and easier collaborations,
and it has quickly grown to over 11,500 members from 95 countries.
With MyNetResearch.com, you will:

Re: Task managers for academics

giff...@gmail.com (Dave Gifford) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:34:13 UT

Try my TiddlyDu3 personal organizer and NoteStorm to taking and
indexing notes: [link]
They are free and you may download as many copies as you wish. They
are for use in web browsers, though IE requires some tweaking to get
them to work right.
Dave

qualitative text analysis software recommendations?

sethcle...@gmail.com (Seth Lewis) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:25:56 UT

Hi, I know there are a lot of conflicting ideas out there about the
best kind of qualitative textual analysis software, but I'd welcome
any recommendations here -- particularly with regard to the pros and
cons of, say, Atlas.ti vs. an open-source alternative like TAMS
Analyzer?

I'm on a Mac but can run Windows XP via Fusion 3.

Possible scam aimed at faculty and students

durb...@gmail.com (Eric Durbrow) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:38:34 UT

Take this with a grain of salt but BoingBoing reports that academics are getting invitations to conferences held in… you guessed it! Nigeria. I am circulating this just FYI.

[link]

Interesting Relevant Post: Just say no to work after 5:30 pm

durb...@gmail.com (Eric Durbrow) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:30:30 UT

Readers may be interested in this post

[link]

written by Cal Newport who is just finishing his postdoc at MIT. His method is to reduce commitments to the minimum so that he can stop his academically-related work at 5:30 pm on weekdays. In my opinion, he underestimates workload for those on the tenure track where after hours commitments are common. Still work reading.

Re: Interesting article on Google Wave for academics/scientists

johnvin...@gmail.com (John Vining) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:56:11 UT

I've just gotten it, and have the typical problem that people have
with it of having no one to use it with. If people here have an invite
and want to play around, they can search for "with:public Efficient
Academic" and a wave I started should appear.

Re: Task managers for academics

bill_har...@facilitatedsystems.com (Bill Harris) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:00:06 UT

Perhaps I should note that I've tried several automated tools, including
several in Emacs (org-mode and diary, and I now see that Emacs gnus has
nndiary [I do everything else in Emacs and Gnus; why not manage tasks?])
and Partners Planner inside Lotus Agenda , but I've been happily using
my Hipster PDA for the last 9 months.

Re: Task managers for academics

fr...@niessink.com (Frank Niessink) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:49:09 UT

Hi Eric,
2009/11/9 Eric Durbrow <durb...@gmail.com>:
I can recommend Task Coach ([link]), which is an
open source and free task manager for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and
iPhone/iPod Touch. It supports hierarchical tasks and categories,
notes, and effort tracking. It's aimed at people that need more than a

Re: Task managers for academics

rla...@gmail.com (Lalit Ramchandani) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:16:28 UT

To add to my previous email I was using GTDInbox (soon going to be called
something else) for my online emails that become projects. The downside is I
am using two project mgmt. systems 1 being Bonsai, the other being
GTDInbox....Soon going to bring them in together.

P.S.: I am on Windows PC

Re: Task managers for academics

johnvin...@gmail.com (John Vining) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:47:58 UT

I use something sort of like what is outlined here:
[link]

It's in gmail, using multiple inboxes and a lot of labels. I use
labels instead of superstars. I have one for each context, and I star
message which still needs something from me. The labels tell me what

Re: Task managers for academics

thibaut.lama...@gmail.com (thibaut) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:18:21 UT

Hi, I have tried Omnioutliner, Things, iGTD and more recently
doit.im .

But about 6 months ago I have started using emacs with orgmode in a
dropbox fodler ([link]).
It turns out to be a very good solution for me:

1) I use linux and osx and I have computers at work and at home. So I

Re: Task managers for academics

rla...@gmail.com (Lalit Ramchandani) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:53:32 UT

I use Natara Software's Bonsai - an outliner program to place all my
projects there (based on GTD philosophy - anything that requires more than
one action step and takes more than 2 minutes).

I organize the next actions of the projects based on contexts and use the
filter to view contexts wherever I am at.

Re: Task managers for academics

mpitkow...@gmail.com (Michael P.) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:08:19 UT

I recently purchased ($13) Check Off from [link]
. It is a very basic task manager program which is another option.

Re: Task managers for academics

emiliepellet...@gmail.com (Emilie) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:21:37 UT

About a year ago, I tried Things for a few weeks, and I liked it very
much at first — it was my first task manager program. But a few things
annoyed me — the main one, if I recall correctly, was the
impossibility to create subprojects. Most of my projects are made of
sub- (and subsub-) projects. Also, I didn't like how tags mixed what I

Re: Task managers for academics

jrhorn...@gmail.com (Jeff Horn) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:25:14 UT

I use the DosBox emulator to play with Agenda. I never had the time to
learn how to use it well, but Org-mode seemed like a suitable
substitute.
Also, Beeswax (mentioned earlier) attempts to re-create the Agenda
feel/functionality in a shell environment.
[link]
Task Warrior is also shell-based. Have a look at the interface for the