Storyspace Website, Eastgate Systems
Notes organization: eg storyspace
For my work, the main advantage of this system comes when I wish to write a report. When I have enough data to provide a fairly complete description of a particular topic or event, I use the Storyspace "gather" feature and the "path builder" to collect all the writing spaces which pertain to that topic. I copy these gathered writing spaces from each month's research and paste them into a new Storyspace document entitled with the name of the topic, e.g. "marriage", "halal", or "Ramadan." (I work with copies of my Storyspace documents when performing these tasks, so that the chronological record of field work remains intact.) After I have collected all my data on the relevant topic, I can read and sort it, discard what is irrelevant, export my data to my word processing program, reorganize it in a logical sequence, fix the prose, and analyze the material. After I have finished these tasks, I have a completed report on a topic, which will become the basis for chapters of my dissertation.