Create a single repository for all your materials with IdeaMason’s unique Portfolio

Capture and manage ideas and cited materials and so much more using our Dashboards. Learn more...

Categorize materials into groups and subgroups with a simple drag and drop functionality.

Link materials to create sophisticated, subtle, insightful relationships.

Create a virtual library of sources. Learn more...

Create virtual work spaces within a single portfolio by subdividing materials into projects and activities.

Organize research materials and manage your workflow with status flags, reminders, history, favorites, a to-do list, and a prospective research list. Learn more...

IdeaMason divides materials into streamlined organizational folders. These folders form a logical structure around the Portfolio Explorer. This structure makes finding and working with materials in IdeaMason easier than in a traditional tree-like format.

Search using our comprehensive attribute-based search tool with boolean full-text search capabilities.

Save parameters of your favorite searches.

Archive individual items, activities and projects from presentation in folders, links, etc.

Create written works using materials collected in a Portfolio with our Composition tool. Learn more...

Import and Export sources and other materials into and out of IdeaMason. Learn more...

Data backup feature that automatically backs up your portfolio files with an additional option for incremental backups with an appended time/date code.

Customizable options make working with your material easier than ever!

Move, dock and pin window sections for a custom layout. Save window layouts as desired.

Stack folders to view more than one open folder at a time within the same window.

Spawn new folder tabs instantly. This gives you the ability to work with different subfolder views of same folder.

Customize the columns in each folder view. Add and remove columns seen in the list view and even prioritize the order of the columns.

Customize background colors to your liking.

Customize font style and size to your liking.

Effectively capture and manage ideas and cited materials using our Dashboards.

Stylish dashboard interface lets you capture, work with, and manage your ideas and materials with ease.

Rich text editor allows you to layout and stylize the body of your text. All formatting transfers to the final draft.

Spell check your work in one or more languages. Add custom words to your own private user dictionary.

Auto-save your work and see an active word count as you write in a dashboard.

Support your workflow by assigning status flags to “unfinished” or “important” items.

Add comments and footnotes to individual items.

Reference sources as you write and let IdeaMason automatically handle references and bibliographic citations.

Manage a list of referenced sources directly from a dashboard.

Create and manage links and categories directly from an item dashboard.

Use Thesis/Abstract dashboard to separate and record structural notes, thesis statement, introduction or conclusion.

Use the Quotation/Paraphrase dashboard to capture a specific citation from a source.

Use the Summary dashboard to keep a record of notes taken from a source.

Use a Figure dashboard to help identify and organize important tables, graphs and pictures within a portfolio.

Create hyperlinks to individual IdeaMason items using the "IdeaMason://" URL protocol.

Create links to outside documents, web pages and items in other IdeaMason portfolios.

Drag and drop selected text from external documents into a dashboard, or from one dashboard to another.

Print and/or email one or more items directly from IdeaMason.

Organize research materials and manage your workflow

Use the Research List to document and manage prospective sources and required action items. Move Reseach items to the Library as needed.

Track tasks and assignments in the To-do list.

Support your workflow by assigning status flags to “unfinished” or “important” items.

Create reminders and link them to material.

Create a favorite materials list.

History folder helps you find and manage recently modified materials.

Use the Info Chooser to collect and reference frequently needed names, terms and abbreviations.

Index and manage electronic documents.

Document sources using IdeaMason’s Source Wizards and manage all your sources in your own virtual library

Supports MLA, APA, Harvard Citations (both UK and Australian variations supported), 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.

Free Form wizard lets you collect information for sources that do not fit the standard source type (listed above). The Free Form wizard also let you write your own citation to fit your specific needs. [This is a shortcut to creating a new style using our style builder.]

Help Tips provide useful information about fields on each page of the wizard.

Automatically handles references and dymanically builds a bibliography with each composition.

Handles Annotations and creates an Annotated bibliography upon request.

Supports works consulted and selected bibliographies with ease.

Fully supports substantive Foot and Endnotes, transcribing them to a final draft.

Let's you cite material from a primary source or reference one or more works as you write in any dashboard.

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 folder.

Or, use our Library search tool, with a full-text and an attibute based search, to quickly find specific items in your Library.

Capture and manage online/web sources and PDF's

Capture a web source or PDF and view it in our NEW custom built-in web browser directly from the Source dashboard.

Drag and drop web sources, PDF files or other electronic sources directly onto the Library folder.

IdeaMason automatically captures the URL or file path and opens a source wizard specific to the source type.

Our Dashboard browser lets you browse the source site without losing the direct reference to the source url.

Save a local copy of a webpage to ensure access to important online information even when it is no longer accessable on the web.

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 items with cited and referenced sources to an outline.

Composition preview lets you read your entire draft as you work.

Edit items directly from the Composition window. Changes are automatically reflected across the entire portfolio.

Add remarks and transitional statements directly to a draft.

Quickly add an item’s links to help you organize related content.

Add an entire category or subcategory of items into an outline.

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 either RTF or Microsoft Word.

Print a fully-formatted bibliography in MLA, APA, Harvard Citations 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 Ibid forms based on the organization of the composition.

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 once in MSWord.

Customize and write your own bibliography style using our StyleBuilder application

Use IdeaMason’s StyleBuilder to write your own style or modify existing bibliography styles.

Import/Export Features let you move material into and out of IdeaMason easily!

Import bibliographical data from other bibliographic applications (such as Endnote) or from online databases (like PubMed). Check for the latest version of the Importer.

Import .txt files into IdeaMason directly into a dashboard. The data in the file will be automatically inserted into a dashboard window.

Individually imported .txt files open directly in a Dashboard window

Import of multiple .txt files are instantly added to a "Review List" in the Status folder so that you can quickly categorize and sort imported information within a portfolio.

Import and export data from Infochooser tables and Categories.

Export single items or multi-selected items from a portfolio to MSWord, RTF, HTML, or XML.

Copy both materials and sources between portfolios.

Drag and drop links to external documents or links to other applications directly into a portfolio for quick reference.

Integration and Compatibility

Integrates with your Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9^® software to provide a fully capable dictation experience into idea and sourced material windows. (Naturally Speaking is sold separately).

Compatible with Windows XP Tablet PC^®