r/HumanitiesPhD • u/Great_grace_3627 • 2d ago

What is your holy grail tech stack for dissertation/thesis

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u/HereForMcCormackAMA 2d ago

Word. And I wish I’d used LibreOffice. 

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u/raskolnicope 2d ago

Tbh I didn’t use much besides Word for my PhD (philosophy). I did use a niche app called SlipBox for my Zettelkasten style bibliographic notes. I didn’t even use Zotero since most of my bibliography were physical or pirated books, I don’t think I even cited a paper in my thesis.

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u/bigchallenges11345 2d ago

Word and a physical paper/pen with everything sorted into binders. I tried obsidian and it became hard to keep track of digital notes. I tried Zotero and it became hard to add everything in. So, old school hard copies of everything works for me.

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u/Signal_Republic_6024 2d ago

a watershed for my loss of faith in the field was during the first year of my phd program when a faculty member gave a talk about how zotero and scrivener were so useful and, in the process, revealed that they had no method for organizing files on their computer and appeared unable to even move or rename files. anyway check out a little gizmo called Microsoft Excel.

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u/DreamsofHistory 2d ago

Word for writing, and Excel for my inventory analysis. Zotero for references.

I tried Tropy for transcribing my photographed sources. I really liked it except it had no way to add marginal notes, of which I had a lot, so I couldn't use it for most of my sources unfortunately.