Operating Systemĭocear runs on Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, or later), Linux, or Mac OS (10.5 or later) Java 1.5 (or later)
To use Docear, you have to meet the following prerequisites. In the following sections, we will explain everything again – in much much more detail. From your previously created literature mind map you can copy all the PDFs and annotations you need.įinally, you export your draft and do the final editing in Microsoft Word or Libre/OpenOffice. The next step is drafting your own paper, assignment, thesis, or book. Research categories created by a user, and the contained PDFs and annotations
This means, after downloading a PDF, you read it with your favorite PDF viewer and annotate anything you consider important and that you might want to look-up or cite later. comments, highlighted text, and bookmarks that you create in PDF files. The central entities in Docear are annotations, i.e. If you don’t want to watch the video, or can’t, read on… If you watched the video already, go to the next chapter. We highly recommend to watch it, as it gives a pretty good overview of Docears’ main ideas. We created a teaser video that explains in 5:30 minutes what Docear can do.