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Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll give you a quick tutorial of an app that I use for outlining writing assignments and research papers, CarbonFin's Outliner. I'm someone who outlines practically everything, from 50 pages research papers to 5 minute YouTube video scripts.  I have a lot of information spinning around in my head and I find I do a better job of communicating my points if I have a preset organizational structure and I work through my points in a methodical way.  I did a video recently on the 4 great tools that I have used for outlining, but in this video, I'm going to take you through one of those tools, CarbonFin's Outliner App.   This is a tool that is available for iOS devices and that also has a web-based component, which was important to me.  I don't believe there is a version for Android yet.  It is also one of the few apps that offers the ability to collapse sections,...

Hi, everyone. This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’ll share some of the tools that I like best to create outlines for research papers or writing assignments.  I recently did a video discussing how to organize a research paper or writing assignment.  And in it, I talk about how crucial it is to outline your paper before you start writing.  But what are the best tools for outlining?  In this video, I’ll cover 4 that I like: Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and CarbonFin's Outliner app.  As an example, I'm going to use this outline for an 8-12 page paper.  I think it's important to put as much detail in your outline as you can, including the quotes, references and examples you are going to use to back up your points or arguments, so my outlines are more than just a skeleton of topics -- you can even see I have the URLs for references and studies in there.  The first 2 outlining tools are standard word p...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’ll show you how you can use the Notability app to draw a visual representation of concepts with a mind map. First of all, what is a mind map and why would you use one?  A mind map is a visual diagram of a topic showing its interactions with other concepts. That just sounds like blah, blah, blah.  So, here’s how I’ll explain it. Sometimes, you'll have a topic which you can immediately put into linear form, which is how we are forced to present things when using text-based applications like word processors.  I consider an outline to be linear. Let me use an example of a book I’m currently reading. The topic is sleep and the author has outlined four parts to the book. Sleep: What is it? Why do we need it? How do dreams work? How to handle sleep problems Then you can group smaller topics underneath each of these broad categories to create a detailed outline....