Comments on: How to write a thesis (Bachelor, Master, or PhD) and which software tools to use http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-to-write-a-phd-thesis/ Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:37:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Joeran http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-to-write-a-phd-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-32880 Joeran Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:37:47 +0000 http://sciplore.org/blog/?p=76#comment-32880 please send an email to us with an example mind map and your bibtex file. best, jöran please send an email to us with an example mind map and your bibtex file.

best,
jöran

]]> By: Joeran http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-to-write-a-phd-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-32879 Joeran Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:37:16 +0000 http://sciplore.org/blog/?p=76#comment-32879 hello, please just download the Setup and install the software. you may also want to read here: http://sciplore.org/software/sciplore_mindmapping/manual/en/ hello,

please just download the Setup and install the software. you may also want to read here: http://sciplore.org/software/sciplore_mindmapping/manual/en/

]]> By: Dhafer http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-to-write-a-phd-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-32337 Dhafer Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:06:56 +0000 http://sciplore.org/blog/?p=76#comment-32337 I will start Ph.d at Adelaide University netx year 2012 , so we need to arrange my information especially in literature reviews, sequence of photos , methods of work, and tables of survey. please inform me How can I install sciplore mindmpping in my laptop that has windows version . I will start Ph.d at Adelaide University netx year 2012 , so we need to arrange my information especially in literature reviews, sequence of photos , methods of work, and tables of survey.

please inform me How can I install sciplore mindmpping in my laptop that has windows version .

]]> By: James http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-to-write-a-phd-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-31613 James Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:23:09 +0000 http://sciplore.org/blog/?p=76#comment-31613 Hi - I've started on my literature review and decided to give Sciplore a try before I get any further. I used to Monitoring Folder feature but I don't see the Reference Key attributes. I've connected my BibTeX file and I expected to see the reference attribute when I imported the files. I toggled View Attributes and tried Edit Attributes but that shows an empty list for me to edit. I'm not sure if I'm missing something very basic. By the way, would it be possible to make the images slightly more high res? The text in the images are not legible and the icons are hardly discernible, which would be OK but for the fact that the tutorial actually references the text in the images. (I'm guessing making it full res would not increase its memory footprint by a lot.) Thanks! Hi – I’ve started on my literature review and decided to give Sciplore a try before I get any further. I used to Monitoring Folder feature but I don’t see the Reference Key attributes. I’ve connected my BibTeX file and I expected to see the reference attribute when I imported the files. I toggled View Attributes and tried Edit Attributes but that shows an empty list for me to edit. I’m not sure if I’m missing something very basic.

By the way, would it be possible to make the images slightly more high res? The text in the images are not legible and the icons are hardly discernible, which would be OK but for the fact that the tutorial actually references the text in the images. (I’m guessing making it full res would not increase its memory footprint by a lot.)

Thanks!

]]> By: John http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-to-write-a-phd-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-28784 John Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:29:35 +0000 http://sciplore.org/blog/?p=76#comment-28784 You might want to check this PrepLit software out for preparing the literature review. PrepLit is a research tool that can search through your PDF collection and help doing the literature review. It does not just let you search PDF files with a lot of extraordinary research search options, but also helps you through the entire literature review process. The search results can be managed which a lot of carefully designed features such as: saving, exporting to open with Microsoft Office or Open Office, ranking, etc. It can make the time-comsuning search possible and save very big amount of your time. Free license of PrepLit is available for educational institute, blogger, journalist, and public speaker. More information on Preplit http://preplit.com You might want to check this PrepLit software out for preparing the literature review. PrepLit is a research tool that can search through your PDF collection
and help doing the literature review. It does not just let you search
PDF files with a lot of extraordinary research search options, but
also helps you through the entire literature review process. The
search results can be managed which a lot of carefully designed
features such as: saving, exporting to open with Microsoft Office or
Open Office, ranking, etc. It can make the time-comsuning search
possible and save very big amount of your time. Free license of
PrepLit is available for educational institute, blogger, journalist,
and public speaker. More information on Preplit http://preplit.com

]]> By: Kurt http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-to-write-a-phd-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-28726 Kurt Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:46:24 +0000 http://sciplore.org/blog/?p=76#comment-28726 Hey there! I am runnign into a problem. I will use a lot of literature sources. The pdfs during my dissertation work will run up in the hundreds at least. So I found it almost unusable when I expanded the folder in the mind map because of the all the pdfs (let alone the additional bookmarks), So what I did was start breaking down the Node : "incomming literature" into sub headings - however when I do this then I assume the path for each individual pdf, that is put into a sub node, has a broken path to the "monitoring folder" which then then creates deadlinks from the pdf to the bookmarks. I have also tired first structuring my folders on my pc to match the mind map structure I want - but I still get the broken link problem. Anyhelp? Is there a way to move nodes around (and into newly created ones) within the monitoring folder node? Hey there!
I am runnign into a problem. I will use a lot of literature sources. The pdfs during my dissertation work will run up in the hundreds at least. So I found it almost unusable when I expanded the folder in the mind map because of the all the pdfs (let alone the additional bookmarks), So what I did was start breaking down the Node : “incomming literature” into sub headings – however when I do this then I assume the path for each individual pdf, that is put into a sub node, has a broken path to the “monitoring folder” which then then creates deadlinks from the pdf to the bookmarks.

I have also tired first structuring my folders on my pc to match the mind map structure I want – but I still get the broken link problem.

Anyhelp? Is there a way to move nodes around (and into newly created ones) within the monitoring folder node?

]]> By: Dissertation Literature Sources http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-to-write-a-phd-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-22327 Dissertation Literature Sources Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:38:12 +0000 http://sciplore.org/blog/?p=76#comment-22327 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: Zhuang Xuhui http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-to-write-a-phd-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-15495 Zhuang Xuhui Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:30:06 +0000 http://sciplore.org/blog/?p=76#comment-15495 Thanks very much. Thanks very much.

]]> By: ooolavr http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-to-write-a-phd-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-14264 ooolavr Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:19:01 +0000 http://sciplore.org/blog/?p=76#comment-14264 As appeared somewhere on this site as well as on the Web, jPDFbookmarks is IMHO the most appropriate and established software for embedding bookmarks and notes into PDF files on Linux. Okular is a nice allowing to visually add bookmarks, highlights and notes to the PDF file BUT those are linked with current user only so can't be transferred and get visualised on other computers, that is, Okular stores all those modifications in the user's home dir, not in the PDF file itself. As appeared somewhere on this site as well as on the Web, jPDFbookmarks is IMHO the most appropriate and established software for embedding bookmarks and notes into PDF files on Linux.
Okular is a nice allowing to visually add bookmarks, highlights and notes to the PDF file BUT those are linked with current user only so can’t be transferred and get visualised on other computers, that is, Okular stores all those modifications in the user’s home dir, not in the PDF file itself.

]]> By: jpz http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-to-write-a-phd-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-12288 jpz Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:24:54 +0000 http://sciplore.org/blog/?p=76#comment-12288 --------- PDF-Xchange + Wine = bookmarking PDF reader in SciPlore under Linux --------- Hi all, I found this workaround which may be useful to Linux users that want to use a bookmark enabled PDF reader within SciPlore. 1) download the free version of PDF-Xchange, (a viewer that allows bookmarking and has a very nice search tool) from here: http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer 2) install PDF-Xchange so it runs under Wine 3) Copy the following lines, paste them to a text file and save it as PDF-Xchange.sh or something similar. -----------------------------------Copy from line below --------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash # Purpose: To convert Linux-style filename to Windows-style to pass as an argument # to wine when starting PDF Reader Filename=${1//\//\\} #assuming you use the default installation folder in Wine App=`eval wine "'C:\Program Files\Tracker Software\PDF Viewer\PDFXCview.exe'" "'$Filename'"` $App -----------------------------------Until line above --------------------------------------------- path to PDF-Xchange executable may be different, check it for your system.. 4) Change properties of the script you just saved to make it executable 5) In SciPlore open "preferences" under 'tools" menu to open the Freemind properties window and click on the HTML tab/button 5) Go to the input box labeled "Default Browser Command Other Os" and replace the text "xdg-open {0}" with "dir-where-u-saved-yr-script/PDF-Xchange.sh {0}" 6) Click Save in the Freemind properties window. Sciplore will prompt you to restart to enable the changes but this was not necessary for me. Now when you click on a PDF in your mindmap it will be opened with PDF-Xchange! The script is a modified version of a Foxit script found here: http://sodeve.net/2007/12/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/ However Foxit would not work within Scilore in this way, failing to open the pdf, although it worked within Nautilus (the Gnome file manager) Both work fine with PDF-Xchange though! Good luck! ——— PDF-Xchange + Wine = bookmarking PDF reader in SciPlore under Linux ———

Hi all,
I found this workaround which may be useful to Linux users that want to use a bookmark enabled PDF reader within SciPlore.

1) download the free version of PDF-Xchange, (a viewer that allows bookmarking and has a very nice search tool) from here:

http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

2) install PDF-Xchange so it runs under Wine

3) Copy the following lines, paste them to a text file and save it as PDF-Xchange.sh or something similar.
———————————–Copy from line below ———————————————
#!/bin/bash
# Purpose: To convert Linux-style filename to Windows-style to pass as an argument
# to wine when starting PDF Reader
Filename=${1//\//\\}
#assuming you use the default installation folder in Wine
App=`eval wine “‘C:\Program Files\Tracker Software\PDF Viewer\PDFXCview.exe’” “‘$Filename’”`
$App
———————————–Until line above ———————————————
path to PDF-Xchange executable may be different, check it for your system..

4) Change properties of the script you just saved to make it executable

5) In SciPlore open “preferences” under ‘tools” menu to open the Freemind properties window and click on the HTML tab/button

5) Go to the input box labeled “Default Browser Command Other Os” and replace the text “xdg-open {0}” with “dir-where-u-saved-yr-script/PDF-Xchange.sh {0}”

6) Click Save in the Freemind properties window. Sciplore will prompt you to restart to enable the changes but this was not necessary for me.

Now when you click on a PDF in your mindmap it will be opened with PDF-Xchange!
The script is a modified version of a Foxit script found here:

http://sodeve.net/2007/12/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/

However Foxit would not work within Scilore in this way, failing to open the pdf, although it worked within Nautilus (the Gnome file manager)
Both work fine with PDF-Xchange though!

Good luck!

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