FreedomResearchNotes

FreedomResearchNotes keeps the papers behind your thesis, dissertation or review together with the notes you take from them, and never loses track of where a note came from. Highlight a passage and it joins your notes with its printed page number, its paragraph and its section, together with a picture of the passage exactly where it sits on the page.

Everything in view. Your project on the left, the document in the middle and your notes on the right. Widen, narrow or fold away any panel, with the commands you use most along the top.

From a note to its page, and back. Double-click a note and the paper opens at its passage; double-click a highlight and its note appears. The arrows between the document and your notes do the same.

Highlight, note and snapshot. Select text and choose Highlight, Highlight and Add to Notes, or Add to Notes, from the bar that appears, the right-click menu or the keyboard, in six colours whose meaning you choose for each project. Keep a figure or a table as a snapshot of its area.

Organise and search. A project is simply a folder on your computer, with folders inside it for chapters or themes. Drag in PDF papers, saved web pages and pictures, or capture a website as a PDF stamped with its address and the date on every page. One search covers your notes, the details of every source and the full text of every document.

Export with the evidence. Export your notes to Word, to a web page, to Markdown or to BibTeX, each passage with its document, title, authors, page, paragraph and picture, followed by a reference list in APA 7th edition style. Or export a PDF with your highlights written into it.

Zotero, built in. Start a project from a Zotero library or collection, with its PDFs, details, notes and highlights. Zotero is only ever read, never changed, and FreedomResearchNotes finds its library wherever it lives on your computer.