Plato!

| Plato Version 1.1, Build 4 Released --- Plato version 1.1, build 4 has been released. It's available on the downloads download.php page. See news for more information. Software for Writers and Researchers --- Articles, papers, essays, book chapters, poems, and newspaper copy are linear forms that are read start to finish. But start to finish rarely describes the way they are written. An author may start with jottings, notes, lists, outlines, and a host of references to source material which may include names, books, articles, interviews, and any number of other things. As work progresses, an all too familiar juggling act ensues where all this preliminary material is slowly tranformed into narrative, and the narrative is organized into articles, chapters and finally even

Plato alternatives

  • TheBrain

  • TheBrain helps you organize all your Web pages, contacts, documents, emails and files in a context-driven visual map.

    tags: Portable bookmark-manager brainstorming interactive-map map-visualization
  • ConnectedText

  • ConnectedText is a powerful but simple information management system. It is based on wiki principles and is a free-form note-taking and note-management application that allows you to keep an unlimited number of notes in one or many files. The information can be accessed at an instant through sophisticated full-text searches, which can span all open files. Navigation between topics is a breeze. ConnectedText works like a notebook with an unlimited number of pages, which can be linked with one another easily by wiki-type links. It is also a free text database with hyper-linking ability. This provides you with a fast and easy way to store, structure and organize all your notes. It has a very capable outliner. ConnectedText's outlining view works like a one-pane outliner. But it can also be made to work two-pane outliner. Topics can be dragged into the outline view, for instance. It can also be used as a clipboard collection tool. When the clipboard catcher is turned on, anything copied to the Windows clipboard is automatically transferred to a ConnectedText topic. You can also drag and drop information from almost any source on the Web or your computer. »

    tags: note-taking outliner personal-information-manager wiki writing-editor
  • Compendium

  • Compendium is a software tool providing a flexible visual interface for managing the connections between information and ideas.

    tags: Discontinued concept-mapping hypertext
  • ATLAS.ti

  • ATLAS.ti is a powerful workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data. It offers a variety of sophisticated tools for accomplishing the tasks associated with any systematic approach to soft data.ATLAS.ti falls under the category of "Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software"

    tags: authoring caqdas html hypertext mind-mapping
  • Ultra Recall

  • "Ultra Recall is personal information, knowledge, and document organizer software for Microsoft Windows.

    tags: personal-information-manager mind-mapping visual-thinking
  • NVivo

  • Software for qualitative data analysis in every setting - from market research to content analysis and evaluation. QSR International’s products: XSight and NVivo are designed to help researchers and other people analyzing audio, video, photos, Word documents and PDF documents to compile, compare and make sense of their information quickly and easily.

    tags: caqdas content-analysis qualitative-data-analysis unstructured-data
  • Info Base

  • Info-Base is a very fast, effective, and easy PIM (personal information manager) and a freeform database for any kind of texts, notes, snippets, and similarly other data. It is a clone of the "good old" "Info-Select", Version 1.0 for Windows (3.x) - by Micro Logic Corp. with some new options like links, spell checker, tagging, global search, clips from browsers or / other programs (with , global hotkeys) , and much more.

    tags: free-form-database note-taking personal-information-manager
  • Dedoose

  • Dedoose was designed from the ground up—by researchers, for researchers—to meet the needs of today’s social scientists working in academia, marketing, and education—virtually anyone looking for innovative software to facilitate the search for answers to research questions via qualitative or qualitative and quantitative data. These data may be numbers, scale scores, demographics, stories, fieldnotes, vignettes, interview or focus group transcripts, photos, and the list goes on AND they may represent individuals, belief systems, settings, culture, relationships, and this list goes on too—clever research teams looking for rich, reliable, valid, and comprehensive answers to their research questions. »

    tags: caqdas content-analysis mixed-methods qualitative-analysis qualitative-data-analysis
  • 3D Topicscape

  • 3D Topicscape is a Personal Information Manager that provides a template loosely based on mind-mapping or concept mapping. It presents the mind map as a 3D scene where each node is a cone (or pyramid, or variation on such a shape). It can also display in a 2D format. Nodes are arranged in a way that indicates how they are related in much the same way as a mind map. In addition to its use for information management it is claimed to be suitable as a task manager, and for use in project management.

    tags: project-management mind-mapping project-planning personal-information-manager 3d-gui
  • PMM - Personal Memory Manager

  • Personal Memory Manager helps you spin-off from the top: manage your own knowledge and ideas. When you write a diary or weblog, study for an exam, work on a research paper, scenario or book, you can create or import your notes into PMM and map them out like sticky or yellow notes on one or many whiteboards (one for each aspect). You model and construct one integrated "body of knowledge" representing your mind. At any moment and from any bit, you can recollect and visualize the whole information architecture surrounding it, as context, and improve on or learn from it! »

    tags: concept-mapping knowledge-management note-taking personal-information-manager
  • LexiCan

  • Manage and control your knowledge effectively and productively with lexiCan! This powerful knowledge management software delivers a straightforward way of organising all types of information which others can then access and use. Storing your information is easy - you simply create a title under which you can arrange texts, tables, images, files and references to web resources and other articles – everything can be collected in one place!

    tags: knowledge-management knowledge-base
  • CATMA

  • CATMA is a practical and intuitive tool for literary scholars, students and other parties with an interest in text analysis and literary research. By helping perform many of the procedures useful for literary analysis that normally have to be carried out entirely manually, CATMA permits to save a great amount of time and work. Being implemented as a web application in the newest version, CATMA also facilitates the exchange of analytical results via the internet, which makes collaborative work more comfortable. »

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  • Provalis Research

  • Provalis Research is a world's leading developer of text analysis software with ground-breaking qualitative and quantitative analysis programs, such as QDA Miner, an innovative mixed-methods qualitative data analysis software; WordStat, a powerful add-on module for computer assisted content analysis and text mining; and Simstat, an easy yet powerful statistical software; The most distinctive feature of these tools is their interoperability, allowing researchers to seamlessly move back and forth between quantitative and qualitative data analysis. »

    tags: caqdas content-analysis qualitative-data-analysis qualitative-research text-analysis
  • Knowledge Workshop

  • Learning Management Solutions provides innovative and reliable software for the knowledge worker. Our personal knowledge management application is a first in class product for dealing with information overload.

    tags: Discontinued concept-map knowledge-management learning-management note-taking