Using Shooglebox for research: go wider, go further, discover more

If your job or your interests involve lots of research – the kind where you're always digging deeper and spreading your net wider than superficial web searches – you no doubt use a combination of useful tools and apps to help you.

Shooglebox is designed for the exploratory, often messy stages of any research project, when you're finding and gathering all sorts of material from multiple sources and when there’s a benefit in not having to structure things too early, as can happen when you collect material in folders, file sharing apps or spreadsheets.

Shooglebox gives you a single place to quickly squirrel away all the different things you're finding – at that stage when you don't know if they'll come in useful or not.

And its card-based visual interface helps you spread out all your material and start exploring it visually – spotting key points, themes and surprises.