Nineteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

Digital tools should play a significant role in the Digital Humanities, making it easier for scientists to cope with the challenges of the modern world where the number of products of human thought, mainly in digital form, is continuously and exponentially increasing. In the paper, we consider digital tools and opportunities to use them in humanities scholars’ work in making, exploring, and thinking. We focus on modern note-taking apps used for thinking as ‘instruments of discovery’. Such tools give the possibility of making creative connections between them (using internal and bi-directional links and visualizations of links), advanced search, gaining and accumulating knowledge. Through these capabilities, scientific notes can be thought of as conversations with oneself in the future.