Best academic note taking software...

[amiga_os]

I'm using KBibTex to handle my bibliography databases. I'm using Kile to handle my essays and dissertations. I sometimes us Lyx to do things in a hurry.

What I'm now looking for is a piece of software for my laptop that I can use to take notes in lectures, and when doing research. Preferably it would tie into my BibTex databases, so that I can reference work easily. It would be searchable. I would allow categories and tags for notes I make. It would help me keep a database of quotations, searchable bibliographically (e.g. a quotation of 500 words in which source A cites sources B and C, all of which are easily searchable).

I could basically do this with Drupal. But I won't have web access at my lectures, or for most of my work in the library. Is there some Open Source software out there that meets my needs?

[hubie]

Couldn't you set up and access Drupal or any one of the other content management packages (TikiWiki (http://info.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=homepage), Joomla (http://www.joomla.org/), etc.) from apache running locally on your laptop?

[glee]

Hello amiga_os,

I am on the verge of re-inventing this particular wheel myself, and was wondering whether you found a workable solution?

At present I am considering using wordpress (possibly using one of the twitter-style themes for manageability) for searchable notekeeping, and manual indexing to JabRef, which I use for reference management.

Any insigth you care to offer which may streamline the process would be appreicatied.

Cheers.

[ahmatti]

I'm not sure that this gives you all that you wan't, but you could use restructured text to take notes and convert it to a website with rest2web.

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/index.html.

A quick google search brings up this project for using bibtex:
http://code.google.com/p/bibstuff/

[nevaeh.aaric]

There are several note-taking applications available for Macs, but I've listed some of the popular ones below. The applications are easy to use so give each a go and see which you prefer.
Note: http://www.codepoetry.net/products/notae