Need a table for a web presentation? Want to collaborate on something involving figures? Try the Num Sum Web Spreadsheet. You can import or paste data from Excel or Open Office, as well as start a spreadsheet from scratch. Spreadsheets can be public or private, and you can invite others to work on your spreadsheet. Once you’re done you can export your files as tab or comma deliminated files or as an HTML table. Or generate a small piece of HTML code to paste into a website (via the Post to my blog link).
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If you’re the type to carry around a notebook and jot everything down, you’ll like TiddlyWiki, http://www.tiddlywiki.com/. Wikis are editable online documents–you make the edits right online and the changes appear right away, no tedious uploading. TiddlyWiki is a wiki on a selfcontained HTML file. All you need is a single file and a web browser. It doesn’t have to be online, either. You can use it right from your desktop or USB drive. Which also means that your notes aren’t live on the web for everyone to see. (more…)
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RefWorks is wonderful, but sometimes you just need a citation formatted quickly. Enter the Landmark Citation Machine. Select the type of resource and fill in the resulting form. Click Make Citations and both APA and MLA versions of the reference will be generated. Both Print and Electronic resources are covered: (more…)
What is a blog? While many people define a blog as an online diary or journal, really it’s just a convenient, chronologically organized, web publishing tool. You can certainly use it as a diary or journal, but it can also be a newsletter (the function of my Frequently Answered Questions), a presentation (see here and here for good examples), a gallery (self-promotion, here), novels, I’ve even tried a CV. The point is that blog platforms offer web publishing without having to know HTML (or have a web publishing software), without having the cost of a site (there are many free blog hosts), and with the ease of being able to publish from any web-accessible computer.
If you can publish pretty much anything in a blog, respecting your blog hosts Terms of Use and general copyright laws, you can use a blogging tool for notetaking. (more…)
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