Tools

Noteflight

Noteflight is a flash-based web product for the creating and sharing of musical text online. As well as the musical text processor, which is much like full software programs such as Sibelius and Finale, Noteflight has a dynamic social element where you can share original compositions with others and invite them to suggest or edit the work. It is ideal for online collaboration in music and for teaching purposes. A brief review of Noteflight, carried out as part of the MA DAH course at UCC, can be found at a href=https://fuaimabu.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/a-personal-review-of-noteflight/

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Anki

Anki is flashcard program to aid in rote memorisation. Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless. For example: Learning a language Studying for medical and law exams Memorizing people's names and faces Brushing up on geography Mastering long poems Even practicing guitar chords!

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SpatialNote

SpatialNote is a 3D note-taking software. The workspace consists of cubes. SpatialNote allows for working with details from the inside the cube view, and with the big picture from the outside structure view. The idea behind making a 3D note-taking solution is to include spatial memory into the process, and boost memorization by implicit spatial metaphors.The application doesn't require any special skills in 3D.

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Visualization

Quirkos

Text analysis software aimed at beginners to qualitative research, and using live visualizations as the interface. Quirkos supports standard code-and-retrieve operations, searches and queries on the data, and can visualize connections between topics and themes. Find more information at http://www.quirkos.com/qualitative-data-analysis-software.html

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Gathering

Prismatic

Content curation and topic discovery website based primarily on publishers the user follows through social media. Upon signing up, users are asked to select a number of topics that fall within their fields of interest. Relevant content is shown in a vertical feed. Users have the option to recommend, comment, share, remove the content from their feed, or save it. Prismatic "learns" from your behaviour which topics and publishers are of most interest to you. They say the more people who use it the better it gets, as recommendations figure greatly into popularity rankings. There are no human editors, just algorithms. Promoted features include connecting with communities who share your interests, learning from users who work in your field, the ability to share your discoveries with friends, and taking a "deep dive on any topic." According to Aria Haghighi, one of the founders "...we have an architecture similar to a search engine: polling and crawling the open web and activity on social networks." A 2013 article on Slate.com refers to Prismatic as "the world's smartest news reader". It's a good addition to other search and curation tools such as Google Alerts and saved Twitter hashtag searches. It aims to be better than the rest through use of parameters that are not static; it adjusts to your preferences as well as trending content on other social media sites.

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Publishing

Tweetster

Plugin for Omeka and WordPress that allows you to automatically tweet new additions to your Omeka archive or WordPress blog.

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Annotating

WikiPack

WikiPack is a web based personal information organizer and Markdown editor that uses Dropbox for synced storage. Using plain text Markdown files and WikiWords, WikiPack gives information context and links entries together by turning your Markdown pages into a private, password protected wiki. The easy to use Markdown language lets you create and edit your wiki pages without having to learn complex wiki syntax. WikiPack features page history/versioning and visual change comparisons in the browser-based GUI and store all of your files in your Dropbox account. You can import existing markdown files to sync WikiPack with other apps and services using Dropbox, or use the quick-start template to set up new wikis. WikiPack includes a GUI markdown editor with syntax highlighting, built-in markdown reference, support for Multimarkdown table, and toolbar buttons with keyboard shortcuts and tools for common formatting. WikiPack works in the browser so you can use it on any desktop or mobile device that has an internet connection and Dropbox functionality.

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MIT App Inventor

The MIT App Inventory (formerly Google App Inventor) allows users to develop applications for Android phones using a web browser and either a connected phone or emulator. Includes forum and tutorials; requires a Google account.

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Collaboration

iAnnotate

Full-featured app for reading, annotating, organizing, and sending PDFs. Offers ability to annotate PDFs with pen, highlighter, audio recordings, and photos. For iPad or Android tablet.

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Capture

Compfight

Search Flickr for photos, sort according to license types. Contains commercial as well as Creative Commons licensed photos.

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