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IdeaMason

Think - Research - Write

IdeaMason

IdeaMason is much more than a simple organizational database: it's a full-featured, comprehensive research and writing tool. Not only does it help you capture and organize your ideas, it also turns them into fully formatted drafts, complete with citations.

This layered application provides a structure that not only helps organize your research, but literally helps you break down the critical junctures in your thoughts.

IdeaMason doesn't just provide notes attached to a source. It offers a place where you can write for a minute, an hour, or an afternoon. It lets you collect your ideas and build on them over time, linking them with related research and new ideas as you move from activity to activity.

IdeaMason provides a set of tools that augment the intuitive process of thinking and writing. Ask yourself what you want to do with the idea or source you just captured, and you will probably find that IdeaMason can do it.

Written by Roger Thomasson

IdeaMason lets you:

  • Capture your ideas: IdeaMason's dynamic, multi-dimensional Portfolio lets you store all your ideas, sources and cited materials, and then organize, subdivide and connect them. You'll not only be more organized and work more effectively, you'll also see your ideas and their relationships more clearly.
  • Manage your research, citations, and sources: IdeaMason makes documenting your sources and sourced materials quick, easy, and painless. Wizards step you through collecting information, and then automatically generate the bibliography, in whichever bibliographical style you choose.
  • Outline, organize, and compose: IdeaMason's unique Composition technology lets you simply drag-and-drop materials from your portfolio to organize and outline your draft. Your compositions work with your source items seamlessly, letting you easily re-organize, modify, and re-purpose material whenever you want.
  • Create a fully-formatted draft document: When you're done adding and editing your items, IdeaMason creates a formatted document complete with all your material, notes, citations, and a complete bibliography. Sending your draft to either Microsoft Word or RTF format lets you finalize and polish your document using whatever tool you choose.
Want to see more? Check out the IdeaMason video demos.
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Who Needs IdeaMason?
You do if you've ever:

  • Are a writer, researcher or analyst, or do any work that involves pulling together your own thoughts and third-party information into coherent documents.
  • Want help turning all your ideas and notes into something useful.
  • Don't find making bibliographies, or oranizing and formatting citations all that much fun.
  • Want to stop spending more time on the mechanics of your writing than on your thoughts.
  • Want a tool that helps you visually arrange, link, manage and connect your ideas.
  • Don't want to miss important patterns in your research.
  • Ever worry about accidentally plagarizing an idea.

Real Users Say:

  • “It's just about the coolest, most intuitive research tool I've ever seen! The product is simply wonderful - I've been looking for something like this for years! It really is a wonderful way of going about constructing/composing a research project.”
  • “I was looking for bibliographic software and this suits my needs perfectly, but what I really like is the way it helps me organize my ideas.”
  • “I like the way you can link ideas. IdeaMason encourages me to jot down ideas before I have fully developed them and link them with other ideas over time. I now find myself capturing critical junctures in my thought process.”
  • “I think you might have a 'killer application' here. I use software like Zoot, Brainstorm, and InfoHandler, but an application that combines collecting and outlining was missing (and I have tried dozens of programs). Thanks again for your wonderful support.”
  • “I now find that I cannot write without IdeaMason - does that make me a convert or an addict?!? :-). I just don't know how I made it so long without the product. The weight of organization has been lifted from my shoulders so that I may concentrate on the important stuff - the content!”

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3 Comments

  • Nov 23 2008 12:16am
    Website Visitor S B Says:

    IdeaMason is a great and well respected organizing and authoring tool.

    1) Is it possible/does it make sense to add additional "Material" types (beyond "Ideas," ..., "Figure") (e.g., code, equation, theorem, activity, collection)?

    2) Is IdeaMason still under active development?

    Thank you!

    Thanks!

  • Nov 24 2008 9:03am
    Website Visitor Tom Colvin Says:

    Just tried to buy the multi-pack license for Idea Mason. Your BUY link takes me to the IdeaMason purchase form -- no Bits du Jour discounts shown and the pirces there are even higher than the undiscounted price you cite. Hope this can be fixed, as I really want to buy another copy of this software.

    Tried to post the comment a couple minutes ago, but it showed up in the comments for XYexplorer. Hope it shows up under Idea Mason this time.

  • Nov 24 2008 9:18am
    Website Visitor Tom Colvin Says:

    OK, figured it all out -- after a hint and a reading of the small print. I missed the discount code first time around. Now I'm authenticated and happy. THANKS.

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