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- SNOWBALL Reference Notes 2.1 is a Hypercard tool designed to help students and other
- researchers keep track of the notes that accumulate during a large writing project such as a
- thesis or dissertation. This tool is designed to facilitate flexible reorganization and
- selective sharing of reference notes with others. It is an update to versions 1.7 and 2.0.
-
- Enclosed in this archive you should find:
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- 1. "SNOWBALL Ref. Notes 2.1" which contains the latest release of the SNOWBALL
- Reference Notes tool (2.1).
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- 2. "SNOWBALL Base" which must be available if stacks containing SNOWBALL
- Reference Notes cards are to function correctly.
-
- In addition to the information contained in the help file accessible from each SNOWBALL
- Reference Notes card, there are a few things you will want to know:
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- 1. SNOWBALL Reference Notes requires HyperCard 2.0 or later.
-
- 2. In order to work properly, each SNOWBALL Reference Notes card must be able
- to locate the "SNOWBALL Base" stack included with this package. One good
- place to put "SNOWBALL Base" would be in the same folder as your HyperCard
- application. Also, make sure that the SNOWBALL Base stack is always named
- "SNOWBALL Base." Note that this particular version of SNOWBALL Base only
- supports SNOWBALL Reference Notes 2.1. If you are using other SNOWBALL
- tools, you will need to replace this stack with the full-featured SNOWBALL
- Base stack (which is not currently available to the public).
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- 3. SNOWBALL keeps track of the cards visited in each session, the amount of
- time spent on each card, the navigation choice used to leave each card, etc.
- This information is automatically saved in text files in the folder that
- contains HyperCard. Creation of these text files can be suppressed by
- unchecking the "Save Trace Information to a Text File" option on the second
- card of the "SNOWBALL Base" stack. The tracing capabilities have been
- integrated into SNOWBALL to support my research goals in the areas of
- hypertext and knowledge acquisition. Please contact me if you would like
- more information about tracing in SNOWBALL.
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- 4. Some of you may have reference notes that you have been keeping using
- SNOWBALL Reference Notes 1.7 or 2.0. You can move these notes to version
- 2.1 by using the Export Cards button from these backgrounds. Note:
- Experienced scripters may wish to use the 2.1 Export Cards scripts in
- their old stacks because this will allow text formatting information to be
- preserved in the update.
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- 5. As with the last release, I am not requesting a shareware fee for the use of
- SNOWBALL Reference Notes. Instead I am asking for some information about
- your reference notekeeping habits, ideas, etc. Please support this
- "responseware" strategy by responding to the questions on the last four
- cards of the "SNOWBALL Ref. Notes 2.1" stack. Please send this information
- to me at one of the following addresses:
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- US Mail: 740 South 50 East Internet: fordj@yvax.byu.edu
- Orem, UT 84058 Bitnet: fordj@byuvax.bitnet
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- If the difference between the small number of responses I have received and the large number of
- archive downloads is any indication, many of you are not responding to this request. I know
- that you are busy, but if SNOWBALL is saving you any time, please use some of it to help me out.
- This will assist me in my research and justify the time I spend developing SNOWBALL.
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- Thanks to the rest of you for your responses. Some of the improvements to this version are the
- result of helpful feedback from users. I hope that this tool will be as useful to you as many
- of the public domain stackware offerings I have found are to me. Enjoy!
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- John M. Ford BYU Instructional Psychology Program
-