A Potential Academic Writing Workflow

* For My New Academic Writing Projects, Given What’s Available as of April 16, 2014 *
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NOTE: The softwares‘ web links are provided in the bottom-right text box below. (Please click the link to explore.)

Research Project PDF Storage for Background Identification and

Management and Personal
Mgmt: Liquid Planner (free
educ. subscription) . . . or
ColWiz + something like Open
Project to Use as a Reverse
Calendar
Initial PDF Storage: Organized
Computer File System -->
Mendeley or Qiqqa (for future
deep searches for re-finding
"can't quite remember" PDFs)
Reading: Dedicated
"Background Reading" Library
in Mendeley or Qiqqa
(I have settled upon Mendeley, but
please see links to Qiqqa videos
below if interested.)
Sequestering of Only Those
PDFs and other Sources That I
Will Actually CITE: A "To Be
Cited" Library in Mendeley or
Qiqqa

Reading to Classify Sources
into "Bins" (i.e., Tag by
Section/Topic in My Paper
Wherein I'll Be Citing the
Source): Mendeley or Qiqqa
Quote-excerpting and Interactive
Note-taking, Toggled w/
Emergent Outlining: In Citavi.
(EXTRA: Later, To Increase
Command of This Content, Make
Concept Maps of It. Can You?
More and More from Memory?)
Hone the Paper Outline (i.e.
Render the Outline a Writing
Road Map, or "Story Tree"): In
Scrivener, Idea Mason, Citavi,
or a Mind Map Tool such as
FreeMind as Embedded in
Docear.
Sketch-write thePaper, Either
in Idea Mason--an INCREDIBLE
environment in which to
outline, sketch, and zeroeth
draft--or in Scrivener, a New
Mind Map File, or in MS
Word. . . .

. . . NOTE: It is possible to export
the Story Tree mind map to MS
Word, open Citavi within Word,
and have access to all quotes and
notes previously created . . . all
at your disposal.
Qiqqa Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtdicOm60pI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttg0B1RFuaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A8C0b03PAQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqeYNXNwrg
Print My Sketch-write. Using a Printed Copy of the Links to Software & Web Pages
Sketch-write, Draft a First  Liquid Planner
NOTE: If sketch-writing was Draft of the Paper in MS Word
done in the mind map, first  Watership Planner (Windows only)
(with Easy Quote-insertion,  ColWiz
export the mind map to MS Citation, and Auto-generated
Word, format slightly, and Bibliography via the Citavi  Open Project or ComindWork, etc.
 Mendeley or Qiqqa
print. Word Add-In!).
 Citavi
 About the Story Tree strategy
Idea Mason Videos (won’t work in Win 8.1+ for me):  Docear and/or FreeMind
Idea Mason Video #1, Idea Mason Video #2  Idea Mason (Windows only; I now use
Scrivener; I.M. won’t run for me in 8.1+)
Idea Mason Video #3, Idea Mason Video #4
Idea Mason Video #5, Idea Mason Video #6  Additonal: Pomodoro technique at
Some Writing Help: Walden U. Writing Center Resources Orkanizer.com or Kanbanflow.com