Software for Research

Jon's Picks:

Software I use and like:

Scholar’s Aid 4AE (notetaking & bibliography; $100 academic)
http://www.scholarsaid.com/index.htm

Bluebean PDF Revu Standard 6.0 (more PDF markup options than Acrobat; $30 academic)
http://www.bluebeam.com/web07/us/products/revu/standard/

Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.5 Preferred (voice recognition, $150 direct from seller, but ~$100 on EBay)
http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/preferred/

Timeline Maker Basic (timeline creation, ~$30 academic)
http://www.timelinemaker.com/index.php?p=products_basic

Tavultesoft Keyman Desktop Pro 7.0 (for typing in Indic languages, $40 academic)
http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/

MS Office 2007 Ultimate (I mention this because of a very good offer currently available: $60 academic)
http://www.theultimatesteal.com/

Memento (simple post-it notes which can be pinned to stay on top of any open windows, FREE)
http://www.download.com/Memento/3000-2347_4-10153930.html

Memory Lifter 2.0 (digital flashcards with Unicode support, FREE)
http://www.memorylifter.com/

XNote Stopwatch 1.4 (transparent on-screen stopwatch, Shareware with nag screen)
http://www.download.com/XNote-Stopwatch/3000-2350_4-10049177.html

Calendar Converter (converts dates to/from standard Gregorian calendar, JAVA, FREE)
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/

Audacity (audio editor & recorder, FREE)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Software I use occasionally:

Simple Concordance Program (concordance and word frequency generator (FREE)
http://web.bham.ac.uk/a.reed/scp/

TextSTAT 3.0 (concordance and word frequency generator for digital texts, FREE)
http://www.lunerouge.org/spip/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=56

Cayra (nodal mind-mapping & brainstorming, FREE)
http://cayra.net/