Docear Reviews

Super Mind Map document management software Docear Reviews

1. Document Management and Organization

2. Mind Map

3. writing ideas: Docear used in conjunction with a pdf reader

A, Docear download and install

1.1 System Requirements: Windowns (XP, Vista, 7,8, or later), Linux, or Mac OS (10.5 or later)

Java 1.5(or later)

1.2 Download Links: http://www.docear.org/software/download/

Two, Docear initial setup

The core Docear are comments (comments that you create in pdf user, highlight text and bookmark). Docear best it supports pdf reader combined with, allows users to better manage their own reading of the results of the literature, combing their research ideas and writing papers and reports.

2.1 Docear registration

When you first start Docear, the software asks if you register, log in or use as a local user. After registering landing Docear will provide the recommended literature, metadata retrieval, and data backup and other functions. After activating the recommendation function, Docear statistical analysis will be the user's mind map. If users do not want to use these features, you can not register and log in.

If the user is not registered to start setting, use for some time, you want to register, you can right-click on the workspace left of the workspace panel, select the text box that appears and then "Register new user", registered in the registration page that pops.

2.2 Docear create project

Select PDF Reader 2.3

Pdf and pdf user to import the annotations, it is necessary to select a pdf can be identified Docear editor. Docear will ask the user default pdf editor, to maximize Docear function is recommended to use the official recommended PDF-Xchange Viewer, which supports all the features of Docear and it's free. I am using Acrobat XI Pro can also be used also recommend Firefox users pdf editor. The figure is Docear official pdf editor adaptation of details.

Click to go to "Preferences" pdf can manage.

Components Introduction 2.4 Docear

By hiding or changing other components may expand the size of the mind map window. Double-click each group between the edge of the small triangle to hide components; press TAB to hide all components

2.5 Create a Mind Map

When you create a new project, lower left corner of the text box has an option to "include demo files" (selected by default), the novice when creating the project can not cancel this option, this project will have created an example file, which will teach users how to create and modify the mind map.

As shown, FIG mind is constituted by a node, each node has text, images, and other content formula. The figure "My New Paper" is the root node, and then be able to add a child node, but also add a child node after child nodes. Import Docear of pdfs and also to comment node (pdf external links and comments ) show . "Nodes" option in the menu bar of the node can perform various operations such as insertion node, node editing and so on. The right panel Document "Format" option to change the style of nodes, such as node shape.

2.6 Help

Click on the menu bar "Help", which has to help users learn to use Docear help files as soon as possible, such as Quick Start, Manual .... Also search Docear user manual Chinese version on the network.

Three, Docear organization literature

3.1 Creating categories

FIG Docear tissue in mind Document "Literature & Annotations" in. The following diagram shows how to edit an existing node, parallel nodes and lower nodes inserted. To delete a node after node can be selected, press the Delete key to delete.

3.2 Import PDFs and annotations, as shown in FIG.

3.3 PDFs and notes classified

The PDFs and comments to node where they should exist. Select move movable PDFs or note release, shear ( the CTRL + X-) or copy ( CTR L + C ), choose another node as a sub- section points paste . After clicking the node is stingy bubble will expand or collapse the section point. Value is noteworthy that , D OC EA R & lt not only allows movement PDFs, annotations can also be moved to any single position.

Docear mobile nodes may also shortcuts through the menu and the keyboard, or drag and drop nodes. Click and hold the left mouse button node, move to another location. If the mouse is released at the upper node, the mobile node is inserted as a sibling node; if the mouse is released in the right-node, the mobile node is inserted as the lower nodes.

When there is a lot of information PDFs, could create a lot of comments or highlight text, is not conducive to find specific information. Therefore, Docear can create categories in PDFs file. Select PDFs node to create a child node, and then categorize the comment in a child node.

3.4 use PDFs and annotations work

3.4.1 store new PDFs and create a new note

Users can annotate and highlight the PDF reader. After reading the article can be saved directly under the respective items Literature repository folder, and then update the organizational literature mind map, you can import pdf directly.

3.4.2 Open PDFs

To view the pdf documents open again, you can click directly on the PDF or comments, Docear file will open PDF files directly, but also locate directly to the page where the comment. This feature requires compatible with Docear reader, at the time of the pdf file is already open, click again to comment, may not jump.

3.4.3 Editing comments

Users can directly open PDFs update Mind Mapping modify comments before; you can also directly edit notes in Docear, the changes are automatically written to the PDF.

Fourth, the reference management

4.1 automatically create references

Docear can automatically extract and retrieve bibliographic data for the PDFs, PDF nodes when the mouse moves will be displayed. Bibliographic data will always be displayed when selecting "Show all attributes". Bibliographic data is incomplete, you can manually add your own.

4.2 Manual Document Management

Docear integrate a complete document management software JabRef (some functions not integrated). You can create new documents in the reference panel, list all the documents, edit an entry window will be updated automatically in the mind map in the panel to change the literature data. If you do not update, you can select the "Refresh reference" in the menu bar. After closing the Edit Entry window, will form a formatted bibliographic references.

Any node can add reference information, add the top left corner of the reference node will be a small white icon. Add references to the nodes can be dragged directly from the panel literature references to the node, the node can also select the right mouse button or menu bar click "Add existing reference" Add References.

The PDF in the mind map onto the panel in the corresponding literature references entries may be implemented PDF associated with the references. PDF is added to the corresponding entry, document information is automatically assigned to the PDF in mind FIG.

The paste can BibTex BibTeX source format into the

4.3 matches the reference node

When a list entry is connected to the literature mind map the same file as a node, bibliographic data is added to the node.

If you give the list of literature entries yet connected PDF add PDF connection, literature bibliographic data entry will be automatically added to all nodes connected to the PDF's.

Because matching node and literature are only achieved through the file name, rather than the path, so all PDFs can not file exists. Otherwise, Docear would think that the literature list has two entries connected to the same PDFs files.

Particular attention when using Zotero, Zotero each folder there is a PDF file, you may file exists, the problem may occur when importing Docear, please check the manual

PDF pathname choose English characters, do not use double-byte characters such as Kanji characters, or do not recognize.

Five draft papers, assignments, books, dissertations

5.1 Basic Process

First, the user Before you begin this procedure, you should have completed the organizational literature, first of all, create a mind map the structure of the article when the article comb structure. In "My Drafts" folder to add a new file right mind map, select the appropriate name. You can also create subfolders draft organization.

In the new mind map document may be organized as FIG mind as to create a node. You can also create other nodes, such as to-do items are free, or journal for publication or conference list of articles and so on.

When the need to use literature information, a node can be copied directly from the tissue in FIG Document mind and paste structure of the article in mind FIG. If a big enough computer monitor, a recommended Docear open another instance, the structure of such tissue paper document and can exist in the mind map on the display, simply drag and drop a node instance to another instance simultaneously.

5.2 Mind Mapping function

5.2.1 virtual link

There are four types of links:

Local file link	Such as PDFs
Virtual Link	按住CTRL键不放，在思维导图中选择两个节点，在菜单中选择”Connect“
超链接	如果粘贴一个URL，会创建一个连接到此超链接的新节点（红箭头）。也可以选中一个节点后，选择”Add hyperlink“添加超链接，或手动编辑超链接。
内部链接	按住CTRL键不放，选择两个节点，在菜单中选择”Link node“.这会创建一个内部链接（绿箭头）。单击时会自动跳转到链接的节点。

5.2.2 云框

云有助于思维导图中关系紧密项目之间的可视化。选择一个或多个节点，选择”Add/remove cloud“。云的颜色和形状皆可更改。

5.2.3 格式设定

5.2.4 自动编号

5.2.5 笔记

5.2.6 属性

属性用来存储题录信息，但可以用它分类文章。例如，可以给文章添加"status"属性，设定值为”to_read“或”top_read“或”boring“等。也可以给文章指定关键词以备日后搜索。

5.2.7 图片

在节点中插入图片的方法有两种。一种是把图片作为文件的链接插入，这样图片将不会在思维导图中展现，单击节点，图片会在外部图片编辑器中打开。第二种方法是在节点中加入正常的本地文件链接或从文件浏览器中复制并粘贴图片。

5.2.8 公式

在思维导图中可以把LaTeX公式加入到节点，允许插入数学符号和公式。

5.2.9 图标

图标有助于高亮某些节点，或者简化项目管理。插入图标有两种方式。一是从菜单插入；二是用图标工具栏。

5.2.10 概要节点

概要节点有助于概括一些节点的内容。

5.2.11 自由或浮动节点

自由节点好像是在思维导图中漂浮着的，可以通过拖曳自由放置（把鼠标移到节点的最左侧或最右侧，点击再移动）。但是，有时自由节点会给布局带来一些问题。

六、撰写论文、作业、书籍、学业论文

6.1 导出思维导图

6.2 与Microsoft Word 协调工作（建议写文章时引用文献还是使用EndNote软件，选择文献与引文格式都比较方面）

在 Docear中，每个文献以其各自的ID分区，即BiTeX key。要把参考文献复制到Word，首先在导图或文献面板选择题录，多选CTRL键，然后选择菜单里的”Copy reference key(s)“,这就把文献的BiTeX key复制到剪贴板了，多个BibTeX key用逗号分隔。

安装Docear4Word（需要调用.NET Framework 2.5）后，开始在Word中写文章，按照草稿，把光标移动到要插入文献的地方，然后在菜单中选择”Add Reference“。要插入的文献清单在新的对话框中打开。如在Docear中复制了BibTeX key(s)，”D→DW“按钮会被激活。按下它，这些复制的文献就会被自动选中。也可以一条一条的手工选择。利用过滤器可以对文献列表进行筛选。使用者还可以选择插入文献的格式。选中菜单中的”Insert Bibliography“按钮插入文献。