Firstly, It was easy to sync between multiple platforms. It was better than the other tools for several reasons. After using Scrivener for a month, I tried Microsoft OneNote and found out that it is the one I needed. It has many more useful features but it wasn’t cheap and I couldn’t use it on a tablet. It has the ability to show your notes like it is on a corkboard.

I tried Scrivener, it is a great software, especially for novelists. I tried several software but none of them suit my needs. If you want to move your notes between documents, you have to open each document separately which makes the process too slow with an old computer. You have to create a separate file for each source, name them accordingly, put them into separate folders. Word processors (like Microsoft Word and LibreOffice) are not designed to organize your notes. Besides, organizing my notes on paper was taking too much time so I decided to use a digital tool, an application to keep all my notes at one source. Writing all my notes by hand to my notebooks was too cumbersome because most of my archival documents were digital. I was writing a dissertation about the foreign assistance received by Turkey in the Postwar period and I had thousands of pages of archival documents, hundreds of books, tens of articles and official reports, newspapers, magazines, assembly transcripts, other dissertations and all kinds of statistical data to collect, organize and analyze. It includes collecting a great amount of data, classifying them and turning all that information into a monograph. Finishing a PhD thesis is a complicated process.

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