Comments for Ahress's ndxCards Blog

Comment on ndxCards – the electronic index cards for all of us by ahress

ahress — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:44:31 +0000

The advantage with electronic version is you can have multiple colors too, as well as other tags that will let you organize/arrange your cards any way you want. ndxCards even has a way of quickly getting those cards that you never tagged so that you can go back, review them and tag them.

Comment on ndxCards – the electronic index cards for all of us by ema

ema — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:03:16 +0000

I know I late getting to this, but one thing I used to do with written index cards that would be cool with the electronic (but probably way hard):

I used different color cards for different things. For example, I may have used different colors for different topics within a research project. Or different colors for different authors.

Then, when I did my first sorting, I could easily sort the colors and then go back through with a better sense of what I had.

Comment on ndxCards – the electronic index cards for all of us by ahress

ahress — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:46:46 +0000

Thanks for the comment. I will be talking about filtering in an upcoming blog.

As to the printing issue, write to customer support. They can suggest ideas that will correct the problem. I myself found that I have to adjust for each printer, so I tend to use the card layout feature on the right side of the page setup screen to get the printing the way I want it.

Comment on ndxCards – the electronic index cards for all of us by Mel Yow

Mel Yow — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:22:40 +0000

I use ndxcards to track a large number of projects. Easy to use because I can assign multiple keywords and retrieve the information from multiple search criteria. I noted in one of the forums that it would be great to write a NOT operator in the selection criteria and I often have cards that I’m basically finished with but not quite ready to delete. Their continued presence in the notes list junks up the list. If I could put a term such as “Archive” in the keywords or even in the subject, I could write a search that would exclude all such cards or easily find all such cards. What would really be neat is to be able to have a NOT and an AND operator function. I understand that the NOT operator is planned for the next version, and I’d love to test it when it is ready.
One more suggestion: I usually print to plain paper, but someone gave me some Avery 5388 cards. I tried printing to the cards, but I’ve been unable to set up the print so that information doesn’t overlap the next following card. The default Avery settings overlap card 1 onto 2 and card 2 onto 3. Not a big deal, since I usually print to plain paper.
Great product. Keep up the good work.

Comment on ndxCards – the electronic index cards for all of us by Martie Groenewald

Martie Groenewald — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:35:14 +0000

Good content, fairly regular updating & interacting with your readers. You could take queries on the forum as blog topics, and announce the topic on the forum. Good luck!

Comment on ndxCards – the electronic index cards for all of us by ahress

ahress — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:23:14 +0000

Good to see a customer commenting. I would also appreciate any tips you may have for someone just starting a blog.

Comment on ndxCards – the electronic index cards for all of us by Martie Groenewald

Martie Groenewald — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:15:46 +0000

I much prefer the electronic version to the paper one! I use ndxCards to gather snippets for my blog and information for a book, and I’d much rather search electronically than with my fingers.

Comment on A conversation from the developer of ndxCards with its customers by ahress

ahress — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:31:05 +0000

We have invited educators to write blogs about the use of ndxCards at their institutions – have not had any takers yet. Guess they have enough to do.

I will be writing about design features in ndxCards to help reduce plagiarism in a future post.

Comment on A conversation from the developer of ndxCards with its customers by Cheenu Srinivasan

Cheenu Srinivasan — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:54:06 +0000

I would like to see a blog from a high school or university 101 teacher in any of the writing intensive subjects suggest how they have gone about using ndxCards in the class room.

Given that cut and paste – plagiarism – is an area of academic concern, it would appear that a more systemic use of ndxCards where an essay or paper is built from notecards used in conjunction with your outlining tool would address some or all of these issues.

Your views?