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Citable v2.3

By Owen Schoppe

Save citable quotes and notes in Google spreadsheets.

Sick of manually tracking sources when collecting quotes? For students, researchers, and other professionals who do secondary research, Citable simplifies collecting quotes, notes and other data points along with the additional reference information needed to make a web citation.

Notes are saved in a spreadsheet in your Google Docs to enable collaboration with colleagues and rigorous analysis of the collected notes. To collaborate online, simply share the spreadsheet.

Collaborate using Post-its? Citable includes a printing template to simplify printing notes directly onto Post-its for easy offline collaboration.

Citable provides enhanced printing for Google spreadsheets. Print each row one a single sticky and select which columns to include.

Citable is secure and suitable for work. All notes are securely transmitted only between the specified Google account and your computer. Citable maintains your privacy.

  • Select some text before clicking Citable to quickly create a note.
  • Citable automatically saves the page title, url, and date.
  • Automatically saves the author of the current article on most news sites.
  • Add tags to organize notes and accelerate analysis.
  • Create new spreadsheets on the fly.
  • Spreadsheets are stored in a Google Drive folder, Citable_Documents.
  • Collaborate simply by sharing documents and adding them to your Citable_Documents folder.
  • Quickly open and view the selected spreadsheet.
  • Print saved notes on stickies using printer template.
  • Sort notes before printing.
  • Export notes in popular formats including APA, MLA and Chicago. (beta)
  • Export notes in bibtex format for Zotero or your favorite citation manager.
  • Use shortcuts to save several notes quickly.

Shortcuts:

⇧⌘X

Open Citable to save your selection.

tab

Navigate between controls in Citable.

alt return

Compose several notes from the same URL.

ctrl return

Compose several generic notes.

Privacy

Your data is never shared with Citable or any third parties. Notes are only transmitted between your computer and the specified Google Drive account using HTTPS. View Policy

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License

Creative Commons License
Citable by Owen Schoppe is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

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