IdeaMason is software for the way you think and write!
IdeaMason can store and categorize ideas in one comprehensive portfolio and utilize a complete knowledge management tool for all your research activities.

IdeaMason has a full citation and bibliography manager and introduces a revolutionary composition tool which breaks the mold of the traditional outline by letting you organize material and manage citations in a single efficient step.

IdeaMason automatically transcribes your work into a fully-formatted document complete with footnotes and reference citations, and generates a complete bibliography in any of the major styles (APA, MLA, Chicago Notes-Bibliography, and Chicago Author-Date).

Here are some key features of "IdeaMason":

· Create a single repository for all your materials with IdeaMason's unique Portfolio
· Organizational folders divide materials logically so you can find and use items effectively.
· Link related materials.
· Categorize materials.
· Create virtual work spaces by subdividing materials into projects and activities.
· Use and reuse materials in multiple projects and activities.
· Full-text indexing and search of all materials.
· Work in a single portfolio or create more than one portfolio to handle multiple work profiles.
· Create a favorite materials list.
· History folder helps you locate recently modified materials.
· Effectively capture and manage ideas and cited materials using our Dashboards
· Stylish dashboard interface lets you capture, work with, and manage your materials with ease.
· Rich text editor allows you to layout and stylize the body of your text. All formatting transfers to the final draft.
· Use Thesis/Abstract items to record structural and organizational notes.
· Full copy and paste support between portfolios and other applications.
· Print and email all materials.
· Manage links and categories quickly from the item's dashboard.
· Organize research materials and manage your research workflow
· Track tasks and assignments in the To-do list.
· Use the Research List to document and manage prospective sources and required action items.
· Use the Info Chooser to collect and reference frequently needed names, terms and abbreviations.
· Index and manage electronic documents.
· Support your workflow by assigning status flags to "unfinished" or "important" items.
· Create reminders and link them to material.
· Document sources using IdeaMason's Source Wizards and manage all your sources in your own virtual library
· Supports MLA, APA, Chicago Notes-Bibliography, Chicago Author-Date styles for both bibliographies and citations.
· Source Wizards intelligently help you collect necessary information for each type of source.
· The Wizards support a full range of source types, including books, periodicals, web/internet sources, reference works, audiovisual and multimedia sources, scriptural references, abstracts, reviews, emails, dissertations, interviews, electronic formats, microforms, TV, radio, lectures, books in multiple volumes/series, etc.
· Help Tips provide useful information about fields on each page of the wizard.
· Automatically creates citations and fully-formatted bibliographies.
· Supports works consulted and selected bibliographies with ease.
· Record annotations for annotated bibliographies.
· Simply and quickly cite material from a source using the dashboard's primary source chooser.
· Use IdeaMason's StyleBuilder to write your own style or modify existing bibliography styles.
· Fully supports substantive foot and endnotes with cited material and ideas.
· Capture additional information about a source (location, ISBN #, Call Number) for ease of reference.
· Find, manage, and view all your sources with our intuitively structured Library organizational folders.
· IdeaMason's Composition helps you create a virtual outline of your materials as you work toward a written draft
· Drag and drop functionality helps you move materials into a Composition and arrange them with ease.
· Organizational elements let you create a basic hierarchical structure in an outline.
· IdeaMason dynamically creates a works cited list as you add cited material to an outline
· Text preview lets you read an item in the outline as you work.
· Open and edit items directly from the outline.
· Remarks let you add content to an outline to help in the final editing of a draft.
· Outline statements let you add transitional sentences.
· Quickly add an item's links to help you organize related content.
· Highlight important outline content with color.
· Page estimator calculates the number of pages an outline will be in final draft form.
· Copy and paste sections from one composition to another as you experiment with different organizations.
· Create a fully-formatted draft and bibliography
· Print a fully-formatted draft in Microsoft Word.
· Print a fully-formatted bibliography in MLA, APA or Chicago styles separately or with a draft.
· Print an outline in traditional number-letter sequence.
· Draft function automatically inserts cited material with references/notes in MLA or Chicago styles.
· Supports parenthetical references, footnotes, and endnotes.
· Supports substantive footnotes and endnotes, automatically transcribing them to a draft.
· Supports selected bibliographies and works consulted, with an option to unify with works cited.
· Draft function supports annotated bibliography.
· Document Templates let you customize the layout of a draft to correspond with style requirements.


Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· IdeaMason 3.1 features a new, highly flexible user interface.
· New composition capabiltiies.
· Endnote data import and XML, HTML, and RTF export capabilities.
· Supports Vista and non-Roman character set languages.