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| Getting Started | ||
| Learn how to get started with a complete overview of IdeaMason's features. | Watch the video | |
| Portfolio Organization and Management | ||
| Managing, categorizing, and searching for materials and sources using IdeaMason's Portfolio model. | ||
| Managing Materials in the Portfolio | Watch the video | |
| Managing Sources in the Portfolio | Watch the video | |
| Categories | Watch the video | |
| Advanced Search and Saved Searches | Watch the video | |
| Materials | ||
| Comprehensive guide to working with material dashboards and managing materials in IdeaMason. | ||
| Material Dashboard Feature Overview | Watch the video | |
| Citing Sources | Watch the video | |
| Using Footnotes | Watch the video | |
| Linking Materials, Files, and Web Pages | Watch the video | |
| Exporting Material Data | Watch the video | |
| Importing Text (.txt) and Microsoft Word (.doc) files into IdeaMason | Watch the video | |
| Compositions | ||
| How to use a Composition to outline your materials and create a rough draft with a bibliography. | ||
| Composition Overview | Watch the video | |
| Adding and Organizing Material in a Composition Outline | Watch the video | |
| Outlining with Organizational Elements and Transitional Statements | Watch the video | |
| The Composition's Bibliography and Source List | Watch the video | |
| Editing Material from a Composition | Watch the video | |
| Using Highlighting to Help You Organize | Watch the video | |
| Creating a Draft in Microsoft Word or RTF, or Exporting the Outline to XML/HTML | Watch the video | |
| Sources | ||
| Working with sources, bibliographies, and the Research List. | ||
| Entering Sources with the Source Wizards | Watch the video | |
| Navigating the Source Dashboard, Abstracts/Annotations, and Links | Watch the video | |
| Manage Web Research Using the "Source on Web" Panel | Watch the video | |
| Editing Source Data and Manual Citations | Watch the video | |
| Changing the Portfolio's Bibliography Style | Watch the video | |
| Organize Prospective Sources in the Research List | Watch the video | |
| Customizing Your Work Space in IdeaMason | ||
| IdeaMason's flexible interface lets you customize your work space to fit your specific needs and workflow. | ||
| Customize the Portfolio Management Window | Watch the video | |
| Customize the Material Window | Watch the video | |
| Customize the Composition Window | Watch the video | |
| Importing Sources with the Importer | ||
| How to import source data using the IdeaMason Importer. | ||
| Using the IdeaMason Importer | Watch the video | |
| How to Export Sources from Endnote | Watch the video | |
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OTHER HELP DOCUMENTS
Customize the format of your Draft Document
Find out how to customize an IdeaMason draft template to fit your specific formating needs. Also find out how to create a table of contents and an index.
Write your own Bibliographical Style using our StyleBuilder
IdeaMason comes with a bibliographical style builder which allows you to build your own styles or customize one of our standard styles to fit your needs. Download the document and learn how to use the IdeaMason StyleBuilder application. (This document was created in Microsoft Word document for ease of printing)