#Nisus writer express call home software#

Following any one of these paths may lead you to an arrangement that you’re happy with.

This means that you may end up adopting the practices of your advisor or mentor, continue to use what you’re taught in your methods classes, or just copy whatever your peers are using. Second, in the social sciences, *text and data management skills are usually not taught explicitly*. Early on, there’s less inertia and cost associated with switching things around than there will be later.

#Nisus writer express call home software#

First, the transition to *graduate school is a good time to make a switch* in your software platform. I do think, however, that if you’re in the early phase of your career as a graduate student in, say, Sociology or Political Science, you should give some thought to how you’re going to organize and manage your work. (My rule is that I don’t try to persuade anyone to switch if I can’t commit to offering them technical support during and after their move.) So this discussion is not geared toward convincing you there is One True Way to do your work. This is the main reason I don’t go around encouraging everyone to convert to the group of applications I myself use.

You can do productive, maintainable and reproducible work with all kinds of different software set-ups. (That note overlaps with this post: it doesn’t contain the first list, but adds some examples to the second.) If you don’t care about any of this, well, just move along quietly. If you just care about the latter list, then a discussion about “choosing workflow applications”: might also be of interest. (Some of it actively detracts from it, alas.) The second list is comprised of the applications I use to do what I’m paid for, and it might possibly interest graduate students in departments like “mine”. The first contains examples of software I find really useful, but which doesn’t directly contribute to the work I’m supposed to be doing. Picking up on an “old item”: over at “43 Folders”: (this post has been marinading for a while), here’s a discussion of the applications and tools I use to get work done.