Capture: This is the single most important element to any long-term research tool that will stick for me.Where Chris - as I’ve inferred from his guide - likes to take personal notes and jot his own personal thoughts alongside the text he’s studying, I find myself coming at long-term research from a different angle. Well, they’re not - my requirements for a long-term research tool are basically identical.īut that’s not to say that my tendencies aren’t a little different, and your tendencies could be completely different than both of ours. No - it only made sense to create an entirely brand new system inside of an entirely brand new app, because surely my needs were completely different than Chris’. My Requirementsīeing the nerds we are, any chance to dive into a completely new set of apps and services has to be taken seriously - I couldn’t just adopt Chris’s Ulysses long-term research methodology and call it a day. Chris shaped his article around how he studies the Bible inside Ulysses, but the premise of the guide applies to long-term research as a whole: Any app that can provide structure, tags, highlights, notes, attachments, and more could be shaped into a long-term research tool.įast forward a year and I’ve found myself looking for my own system for Bible study and long-term research.
Right around this time last year, Chris Bowler wrote an awesome guide for The Sweet Setup for using Ulysses as a long-term research tool.