When you talk about schema to organize and using tags to create a secondary schema--what exactly do you mean? I was thinking that schema refers to a theme--is creating a secondary schema like adding a "sub-theme?" (I know this might be a really obvious question, but I am not a "digital native.")...
Schema is the nomenclature we use in the DEVONthink for Historians courses to describe the hierarchy in your database. Here is an analog example: you have a filing cabinet for your teaching materials that is organized by courses (e.g. each big green folder is labeled 20th City U.S. History; The American City; Freshman Seminar). That means your primary schema is "courses." You mostly use tan manila folders labeled by semester (e.g. Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020), but discover it is then hard to find the printouts of the readings you assign over and over again. So you decide to buy a pack of neon green post-it notes and you stick them to the sides of the printouts so they stick out of the folders. The post-its represent your secondary schema -- it's a way of labeling materials that preserves the original course schema but allows you to easily pull out the readings when that is your focus. Hope this explanation helps!
Avigail. Thanks for the demo! Can you give a bit more information on linking to Bookends from DT3? Also I am looking on using Scrivener as my writing tool and DT3 as the data gathering and organizing tool. I know they can interact with one another and am wondering if you have explored this? Thanks again.
Hi James! Thanks for asking. We designed custom templates/scripts for DEVONthink for Historians that basically allows you to capture citation information in DT3 and send it to Bookends. It's not magic -- it's basically code that says take X from box 1 in DT3 and put it in Box 1 in Bookends. Having used the scripts for the past year or two, I would say the biggest advantage is that it motivates you to immediately move citation info from your database to the reference manager. Before I had the templates/scripts, I would wait until I finished a chapter before filling in all the citations... and then I HATED myself. As for Scrivener, it's myst second-favorite piece of software after DT3. I wouldn't exactly say that they interact... or if they do, it's not something I've figured out. You might be able to do something with indexing -- moving Scrivener files into your database, though I'm not sure that's helpful.
Thanks for this. How would you say this app is superior to the regular folder structure a computer offers. I can see it is, but not clearly enough :) P.S. Am not a historian although I do write.
So sorry for the delayed reply -- somehow we didn't get the notification! The #1 advantage IMO is being able to toggle between documents without having to open them into an app. It's much faster to click around within DT than to use quicklook or open up a bunch of PDFs or documents. The app is also so powerful when it comes to tagging, searching, and annotating -- it's very easy to find things. I would encourage you to download DT and try it out! I think you get 30 days free? Something like that. It's pretty generous and you don't need to give your credit card info or email.
@@DEVONThinkforHistorians Hi and thanks for your reply :) I get what you're saying. Zipping in and out of files will be much easier, and one would cover multiple types of files. Will give it a go. I also do like the idea of databases... since a database can be just one "project" of sorts, making it much more focussed, as your video suggests? By the way, is there any cheaper software that comes close, in your opinion? I'm doing this for fun, so I hesitate to spend.
@@accentontheoff DT is pretty unique and I've yet to find a tool as powerful, but a lot of people use digital notebooks like Evernote and reference managers like Zotero in similar ways. We have a course called Database Foundations for Researchers that briefly reviews some of these tools and their relative merits. coursecraft.net/c/Foundations
@@DEVONThinkforHistorians Hi, I later remembered that your channel has DEVONThink in the name and the question was probably a bit off :) But thanks sure will look it up!
@@accentontheoff No worries! We get this question a lot! Every project is different and sometimes the right tool for one is wrong or overkill for another -- so we try to keep our eye on the various softwares and platforms that are out there.
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When you talk about schema to organize and using tags to create a secondary schema--what exactly do you mean? I was thinking that schema refers to a theme--is creating a secondary schema like adding a "sub-theme?" (I know this might be a really obvious question, but I am not a "digital native.")...
Schema is the nomenclature we use in the DEVONthink for Historians courses to describe the hierarchy in your database. Here is an analog example: you have a filing cabinet for your teaching materials that is organized by courses (e.g. each big green folder is labeled 20th City U.S. History; The American City; Freshman Seminar). That means your primary schema is "courses." You mostly use tan manila folders labeled by semester (e.g. Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020), but discover it is then hard to find the printouts of the readings you assign over and over again. So you decide to buy a pack of neon green post-it notes and you stick them to the sides of the printouts so they stick out of the folders. The post-its represent your secondary schema -- it's a way of labeling materials that preserves the original course schema but allows you to easily pull out the readings when that is your focus. Hope this explanation helps!
Avigail. Thanks for the demo! Can you give a bit more information on linking to Bookends from DT3? Also I am looking on using Scrivener as my writing tool and DT3 as the data gathering and organizing tool. I know they can interact with one another and am wondering if you have explored this? Thanks again.
Hi James! Thanks for asking. We designed custom templates/scripts for DEVONthink for Historians that basically allows you to capture citation information in DT3 and send it to Bookends. It's not magic -- it's basically code that says take X from box 1 in DT3 and put it in Box 1 in Bookends. Having used the scripts for the past year or two, I would say the biggest advantage is that it motivates you to immediately move citation info from your database to the reference manager. Before I had the templates/scripts, I would wait until I finished a chapter before filling in all the citations... and then I HATED myself. As for Scrivener, it's myst second-favorite piece of software after DT3. I wouldn't exactly say that they interact... or if they do, it's not something I've figured out. You might be able to do something with indexing -- moving Scrivener files into your database, though I'm not sure that's helpful.
Thanks for this. How would you say this app is superior to the regular folder structure a computer offers. I can see it is, but not clearly enough :) P.S. Am not a historian although I do write.
So sorry for the delayed reply -- somehow we didn't get the notification! The #1 advantage IMO is being able to toggle between documents without having to open them into an app. It's much faster to click around within DT than to use quicklook or open up a bunch of PDFs or documents. The app is also so powerful when it comes to tagging, searching, and annotating -- it's very easy to find things. I would encourage you to download DT and try it out! I think you get 30 days free? Something like that. It's pretty generous and you don't need to give your credit card info or email.
@@DEVONThinkforHistorians Hi and thanks for your reply :) I get what you're saying. Zipping in and out of files will be much easier, and one would cover multiple types of files. Will give it a go. I also do like the idea of databases... since a database can be just one "project" of sorts, making it much more focussed, as your video suggests? By the way, is there any cheaper software that comes close, in your opinion? I'm doing this for fun, so I hesitate to spend.
@@accentontheoff DT is pretty unique and I've yet to find a tool as powerful, but a lot of people use digital notebooks like Evernote and reference managers like Zotero in similar ways. We have a course called Database Foundations for Researchers that briefly reviews some of these tools and their relative merits. coursecraft.net/c/Foundations
@@DEVONThinkforHistorians Hi, I later remembered that your channel has DEVONThink in the name and the question was probably a bit off :) But thanks sure will look it up!
@@accentontheoff No worries! We get this question a lot! Every project is different and sometimes the right tool for one is wrong or overkill for another -- so we try to keep our eye on the various softwares and platforms that are out there.